{"id":455237,"date":"2026-02-07T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:26:10","slug":"streamer-receives-ban-from-pga-tour-after-actions-at-wm-phoenix-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455237\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamer receives ban from PGA Tour after actions at WM Phoenix Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Waste Management Phoenix Open attracts a different type of golf fan than the typical PGA Tour event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s a place where fans are encouraged to get loud and rowdy. Drink a lot, heckle and cheer. It\u2019s a four-day party on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The players seem to really enjoy the event. It\u2019s something different, a nice diversion from the norm. And the 16th Coliseum hole, a par three surrounded by a stadium packed by fans, generates an incredible environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But on occasion, this event can bring out the worst in fans, and a a streamer was banned from the PGA Tour for their actions at this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Justin Edmonds\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ec801e5cdeff6457b198b744f6685115.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Justin Edmonds\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Streamer Jack Doherty receives ban from PGA Tour events<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Controversial streamer Jack Doherty was given a lifetime ban from the PGA Tour for paying a spectator $100 to shout in a player\u2019s back swing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Doherty paid the fan to shout during Mackenzie Hughes\u2019 backswing at the Phoenix Open, which justifiably angered Hughes and the nearby spectators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police swiftly escorted both off the premises, despite Doherty\u2019s pleas of \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An official then told Doherty, \u201cIf you come back here again before this tournament is over, you will be arrested, and then we\u2019ll go through that whole process. In addition to that, I\u2019m trespassing you from all future PGA Tour tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf you show up again at a PGA Tour tournament again, you will be arrested. For the foreseeable future until we can work this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack Doherty slammed for actions at WM Phoenix Open<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The PGA Tour was widely praised on social media for the way they handled this interaction, and let\u2019s just say Doherty isn\u2019t the most popular person on the PGA Tour right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former PGA Tour pro Smylie Kauffman posted to X: \u201cSomeone needs to give this kid a swirlie\u201d, and continued, \u201cAnd I volunteer as tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That was the prevailing consensus aimed at Doherty for attempting to disrupt the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luckily for Hughes, a Canadian fighting tooth and nail to keep his PGA Tour card this season, he finished his round two under par, and is T19 in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Waste Management Phoenix Open attracts a different type of golf fan than the typical PGA Tour event.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,212904,45317,3332,99,212905],"class_list":{"0":"post-455237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-jack-doherty","10":"tag-mackenzie-hughes","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-waste-management-phoenix-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}