Waste Management Open 16th hole: List of hole-in-ones, rock concert atmosphere for 2023 (VIDEO)

To be honest, it's an unremarkable Par 3. 163 yards, not-very-penal bunkers surrounding a large, elevated green. A pretty standard short iron for most of the PGA Tour.

But it has become one of the great sights in golf. Whereas it's not the where whistling birds of The Masters or the waves crashing against Pebble Beach, it's as much a part of the PGA Tour as courtesy cars and debates about caddie pay.

It's the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale, home of the Waste Management Open. And for four days in February, it can become more rock concert than rolling hills. 2023 will be the 88th edition of the tournament, but it came into its own after moving to the TPC course in 1987. This is the fourteenth year Waste Management will be the sponsor, but the legendary 16th is what makes it special.

DraftKings Sportsbook is offering hole-in-one prop bets for five holes in Scottsdale, but No. 16 is the only one with its own prop bet. A hole-in-one there at any point in the tournament is +400.

There were four holes-in-one on the Loudest Tee In Golf before 1997, but that was the year that what was a prized local tradition became a can't-miss internationally known party location. A fresh-out-of-Stanford Tiger Woods had just earned his full-time PGA Tour card a few months earlier, and was still more than 10 weeks from A Win For The Ages at Augusta.

And then this happened.

  
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