Alex Smalley came to TPC Scottsdale having made the cut 59 times in 102 PGA Tour appearances. A tour pro since 2022, he's yet to win a tournament but has been runner-up twice, finished in the top five five times and has nine top-10 finishes.

WM Phoenix Open purse is set for $9.2 million, with the winner's share coming in at $1,656,000 -- the standard 18 percent payout according to the PGA Tour's prize money distribution chart. The 2025 WM Phoenix Open field is headed by Scottie Scheffler,

The Phoenix Open's famously booze-soaked 16th hole is one of the unique spectacles in golf, where the normally gentile sport lets loose with stadium-style seating, deafening music and an enthusiastic announcer introducing players in a scene that's more WWE than PGA Tour.

The "Bob Does Sports" crew is just one of the many golf influencers roaming around at the WM Phoenix Open this week. Frankie Borelli joined Barstool Sports’ "Fore Play Golf" channel about five years ago and said the PGA Tour’s reception of their channel has changed significantly.

Time for the chaos. Measures have been put in place to prevent the WM Phoenix Open crowds from getting out of hand as they have in the past, but still, it’s a party at TPC Scottsdale and they’ve all come to see the game’s best do what they do.