Your Ad Here

I will try to make up for that bad service and fill you in on what happend during today’s third round:

For the third day in a row Phil Mickelson was paired with Australian Adam Scott, however this time in a much quieter athmosphere as world number one Tiger Woods was missing from the first two round’s historical threesome. And for the first time during the US Open Phil decided to put a driver into his bag. It seems that after Friday’s round of 75 (+4) he finally concluded that playing from the thick stuff (as he did regularly during the first two days) isn’t quite as bad when you’re 20 yards closer to the green…

The conditions on Saturday were quiet difficult as the marine layer did not leave the golf course all day long and the moisture it brought made the rough extremely difficult to play. Phil played a good outward nine (+1) and was still in contention until he came to the 13th hole. After missing the fairway from the tee (with the driver) and laying up into the first cut of rough approximately 80 yards from the green, it took him an incredibly four shots from that distance to finally hold the ball on the green! Wedge shots number one and two had too much backspin and rolled back off the green and shot number three was a chunk that didn’t even make it up to the green. His fourth attempt finally found the back of the green from where Phil Mickelson three-putted for a quadruple-bogey nine. His comment: “I’ve already made 9 here before - when I was 8 years old…”.

If you are really masochistic (or simply dislike Phil Mickelson), golf.com has a more detailled description on what happenend on number 13.

He did finish with a round of 76 (+5) in a tie for 46th and very much out of the tournament we all wanted him to win so much.