Following Mickelson’s opening 70 at the Memorial, the six-time US Open runner-up was asked about how the USGA sets up the golf courses for its biggest annual event. He did not hold back.
Teenagers are routinely guilty of doing doughnuts when receiving their driver’s license. But rather than tearing up a car park or front lawn, Robert Keilch pulled the manoeuvre on a US Open qualifier field.
Under the new rules of golf that will go into effect on January 1, 2019, players will have the option of leaving the pin in when they putt on the green. Bryson DeChambeau thinks it can help him make more putts.
Yes, these guys are good. But are they really that good? Or, has the tour, in its zeal to prove week in and week out how good they are, gone too far with sometimes laughably easy course setups?
While other players are contemplating how much they will stifle their drivers, the world No.1 intends to let loose on as many as half the holes at Carnoustie. This is called playing to your strengths.
They were waiting for him, and Phil Mickelson knew they would be there – nearly one month on from his shenanigans aboard the 13th green at Shinnecock Hills.
Phil Mickelson’s brush with the rule book got him in hot water at Shinnecock Hills. Unlike his actions at the US Open, however, Mickelson’s latest snafu was self-enforced.
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