# Hilarious name for a golf tournament

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-name-for-a-golf-tournament/530695>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 27, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-name-for-a-golf-tournament/530695 "2010-02-27T22:31:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-name-for-a-golf-tournament/530695/1 "2010-02-27T22:31:50Z")

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Has anybody other than golfers noted the wonderful new name for the Phoenix Open golf tournament?

It is now the…hold it…Waste Management Phoenix Open.

OK, go ahead and make the jokes.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-name-for-a-golf-tournament/530695/2 "2010-02-27T23:23:39Z")

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“Say, how do you get those fairways so **green**?”

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-name-for-a-golf-tournament/530695/3 "2010-02-27T23:26:57Z")

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“Ohh man, you really sliced that one out into the shit”  
“Really bad weeds out there?”  
“Well, no Actually. I meant…”