Every Monday Alex Miceli will share what he learned from the previous week in golf.
What I learned this week is that the old saying, “the ends justify the means,” is alive and well.
It was never more true than at the WM Phoenix Open, an event run by the Thunderbirds, whose history of community preservation and promotion is documented on the tournament’s website .
“The silver pendant of The Thunderbirds is emblematic of continuous civic pride and unrivalled success in the promotion of the Phoenix area.”
I guess I have a different definition of civic pride, and it isn’t people urinating in their pants, jumping into bunkers during play or falling dead drunk all over the course.
And those were just a few of the non-civic moments during last week’s Phoenix Open.
Dubbed “The People’s Open,” the annual trip to Scottsdale is a party like no other on Tour—with clearly little to no supervision. Many who entered the gates as adults were magically transformed into adolescents, with a beer or something harder in their hands to enjoy themselves since golf is clearly secondary to getting blotto.