[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by rustyp

Hole 16 on Waste Management one of the most popular on the tour of a waning sport seems to be a fan favorite. Perhaps the PGA stopped holding those quiet please signs up and encouraged cheering for your player (singular) the sport would be growing instead of declining and they would not have to keep looking over their shoulder and strategizing over LIV. As a side note here in TV most courses have tee times 8 minutes apart. The courses are booked solid everyday - all day. If people were not playing eight minute holes the tee times would keep getting backed up more and more as the day progresses. Not the case. The place runs like a fine tuned fiddle. Where is all the need to speed up play ?

I can see why you might make the mistake of thinking that players must play a hole in eight minutes. In fact that it only true on par three holes. On other holes players only need to drive, hit their second shots and get out of the way for the next group to tee off.
But yes, they should have wider spacing of start times on any course that has a par three as the first hole.
The 16th at Phoenix is a one off novelty. The same thing happened in the Ryder Cup a few years back. But in both cases, the noise was constant. There was not a sudden yell or golf cart starting up breaking a relative silence.