Phil Mickelson tried to punch a 78 yard shot with a putter from the fairway and, well, the results were interesting | Golf world

Someone will take away the Memorial Tournament champion on Sunday evening, but Muirfield Village will have defeated most of the pitch by the end of the day. Golfers are playing on a solid and fast golf course becoming more solid and fast with the heat of over 90 degrees in Dublin, Ohio. Oh, and if you haven’t heard, they’ll tear the greens apart as part of a restoration project on Monday. So if things get a little closer as the afternoon progresses, you will understand that there will be no subscription that will be classified by a dead course on Monday.

We declare all of this as a preface that you will probably see some strange things as you watch it play today. And if you don’t believe it, consider how Phil Mickelson hit the 460-yard par-4 13th hole a short time ago. After taking a 364-yard round on the fairway (not bad for a 50-year-old!), Mickelson, who was five in his round and eight in the tournament, left 78 yards in a hidden location in the left hole. Usually a master with his wedges, Lefty had another idea in mind about how to play the second hit, when he asked his caddy / brother, Tim Mickelson, that a club could handle the approach.

Do you mind handing over my putter?

We’ll show you what happened next.

Yes, it didn’t end the way Phil intended, even if he made a par, which is a good score in almost every hole on Sunday.

Mickelson brought in another bogey, ending the day with a 78 out of six. Here’s what he said when asked about his strategy on the 13th:

“So the reason I tried to put the fairway before the green was tilted more severely from right to left, and if I had used that slope it would have gone at an angle and would have made the ball work on the left pivot and maybe come closer, while if I hit a wedge shot and flew it over the front edge or just briefly, it wasn’t using that extra tone or outline to bring the ball to the left. I should have been content with a good shot being 12 or 15 to the right of the hole. I didn’t hit it hard enough, but if I hit it hard enough or the right speed, I think the ball could have approached the hole for a tap-in, while a wedge I didn’t see was possible. “

We will give Phil an A for effort and creativity and a C for running on the putt.