Scottsdale, Arizona Stadium Course Sonoran Desert
Desert-target golf in north Scottsdale — grass corridors framed by Sonoran scrub and washes, spectator mounding rising around them, the McDowell Mountains on the horizon. One hole here becomes the loudest place in the sport. The anthem is the counter-move: structure louder than noise.
24 back · 8 down — 3:1 in time1½ beats back · ½ beat down at 112 BPM
Course Anthem
One track, engineered for this ground: TPC Scottsdale — Anthem (Final), streamed from the 24/8 master library. Build the rest of your round from the library behind it.
Playback across 32 units — the last 8 are the conversion00 / 32 units
The 24/8 Tempo System
Frame-by-frame video of tour professionals — from Hogan to Nicklaus to Woods — shows elite swings share an elapsed-time signature: the backswing takes about three times as long as the downswing. Measured on 30fps video, one of the canonical tour tempos is 24 frames back, 8 frames down. That’s where we live.
John Novosel, Tour Tempo (Doubleday, 2004). A Yale physics study (Grober & Cholewicki, 2006) found the same ~3:1 average with club sensors.
Peer-reviewed work found synchronized-metronome training improved golf shot accuracy — and decades of rhythmic-auditory-stimulation research show the motor system entrains to a beat.
Sommer & Rönnqvist, J. Sports Science & Medicine (2009); Thaut et al., rhythmic auditory stimulation research.
At 112 BPM, one beat lasts 0.536 seconds. A 24/8 swing sits on that grid almost perfectly: 1½ beats back, ½ beat down. Our anthems are engineered so the pocket of the song is the pocket of the swing.
That last part is arithmetic, not a lab result — 24 frames ÷ 30fps = 0.80s ≈ 1½ beats at 112 BPM.
Use This Anthem For
Play it on the drive in. Set the tempo before the first tee so the swing arrives already counted.
One earbud between holes. Hold the grid when the walk to the next tee gets loud.
Bad swing, next shot. One bar of the groove clears the last hole off your hands.
Heart rate up after a double? Breathe on the beat until the round slows back down to your speed.
Range sessions on the anthem: rehearse 3:1 until it isn’t counting anymore — it’s just how you move.
Play it out. Replay the round at the tempo you want to remember it at.
The Coliseum
The 16th is a par 3, fully enclosed by temporary grandstands and skyboxes during the WM Phoenix Open — dubbed “The Coliseum,” the only fully enclosed hole on the PGA Tour. Seating goes up in the weeks before the event; capacity is roughly 20,000. Below: the enclosure as pure geometry. Every tick is crowd. Press play, and the noise locks to the grid.
16TH — PAR 3
THE TOUR’S ONLY FULLY ENCLOSED HOLE
TEMPORARY GRANDSTANDS + SKYBOXES
WM PHOENIX OPEN
SEATING ERECTED IN THE WEEKS BEFORE THE EVENT
CAPACITY — ROUGHLY 20,000
The record — verified
Opened. Designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish — commissioned by the PGA Tour as a purpose-built “stadium” tournament venue.
The Phoenix Open moves in from Phoenix Country Club, its home through 1986 — and stays. Annual host ever since: officially characterized as the best-attended event on the PGA Tour, nicknamed “The People’s Open,” run by The Thunderbirds.
Tiger Woods aces the 16th in the third round — a 162-yard 9-iron. The crowd showers the tee with beer cups; Woods raises the roof. The full stadium enclosure had not yet been built — the ace helped drive the hole’s stadium buildout.
Andrew Magee makes the only par-4 hole-in-one in PGA Tour history on the 332-yard 17th — his drive ricochets off Tom Byrum’s putter on the green and drops in.
Phil Mickelson opens with an 11-under 60 — tied course record, a lip-out from 59 — and finishes 28-under 256 for his third title (1996, 2005, 2013 — tied for the most wins at the event).
Tom Weiskopf returns to lead a ~$15 million renovation (~$9 million on-course). The course closes April–November: all 18 greens rebuilt with several relocated, tees and bunkers reshaped, irrigation upgraded.
719,179 for tournament week — including a single-day record of 216,818 on Saturday. The largest crowds in PGA Tour history.
36-hole facility — Stadium Course + Champions Course (Randy Heckenkemper design) · 17020 N. Hayden Road, North Scottsdale · Sonoran Desert · McDowell Mountains