STREAKING IS WRONG -- let's be clear about that up front. It's boorish, infantile, and it always ends badly. That being said, sometimes a legend comes along who pulls off a marathon streak so improbable, so filled with performative flourishes and so in keeping with the whole sloshy drunken gestalt of its place -- the 16th hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the only fully enclosed hole on the PGA Tour, aka the Coliseum -- that we are reminded why rules are meant to be broken.
He emerged Friday from somewhere near the tee box, nude except for a Speedo, with "19TH HOLE" painted on his back and an arrow pointing downward, and then he made a beeline straight down the middle of the fairway like he'd been smacked with a 9 iron through the manicured cactus garden, 180 yards to the cup.