The Waste Management Phoenix Open attracts a different type of golf fan than the typical PGA Tour event.
This is a place where fans are encouraged to be loud. Please drink a lot, jeer, and support us. It’s a four-day party on the PGA Tour.
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Players seem to be really enjoying this event. It’s something different and a nice distraction from the norm. And the Coliseum’s 16th hole is a par 3 surrounded by a stadium full of fans, creating an incredible setting.
But sometimes the event can bring out the worst in fans, with an AA streamer being banned from the PGA Tour for his actions at this year’s event.
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Streamer Jack Doherty suspended from PGA Tour events
Controversial streamer Jack Doherty has been sentenced to a lifetime ban from the PGA Tour for paying a spectator $100 to scream at a player’s backswing.
Doherty paid a fan to scream during Mackenzie Hughes’ backswing at the Phoenix Open, which understandably angered Hughes and nearby spectators.
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Despite Doherty’s pleas that “I didn’t do anything,” police quickly escorted the two from the premises.
The official then told Dougherty, “If you come back here before this tournament is over, you’ll be arrested and we’ll take care of all the procedures after that. In addition, you’ll be trespassed from all future PGA Tour tournaments.”
“If you show up at a PGA Tour tournament again, you will be arrested. You will be arrested for the time being until we resolve this issue.”
Jack Doherty criticized for his behavior at WM Phoenix Open
The PGA Tour was widely praised on social media for its handling of this interaction, but let’s just say Doherty isn’t the most popular person on the PGA Tour at this point.
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Former PGA Tour pro Smiley Kaufman posted to
That was the general consensus against Doherty for trying to sabotage the event.
Fortunately for Canadian Hughes, who is fighting hard to keep his PGA Tour card this season, he finished the second round under par and is T19th in the tournament.
