Rebel Phil Mickelson is out. The old American hero, today escaping to the Saudi league, did not take flight on the second day of the US Open and with 11 over par he said goodbye to the great who has never won, six times second. There will be no more “Phil, your pockets are heavy!” the weekend after the veteran player, who turned 52 on Thursday, sat out the cut.
Another dissident of weight of the American circuit was moving on the wire, pending the final results. Sergio García signed the pair of the field in the second leg, which left him with a four-up card, just the hinge that decided who would play the next day and who should get the return ticket. The castellonense danced the round with four bogeysFrom birdies and a eagle. As soon as she saw the shore close as she moved away from the goal. The ball landed on the other side of the net. Outside the cut.
“Honestly, I don’t know what to say. I’ve noticed that I’ve hit the ball with the quality of the shot to be through the weekend and I don’t know if I’m going to pass. It’s complicated. The only thing I can do is keep giving it and that at some point luck will change, ”explained the 42-year-old from Castellón. “I have thrown very good putts that have not entered but that is always, it is not a new thing. Especially good shots that you feel are close and it’s not. Fighting I always fight because it’s the only thing I have left. Sometimes I hit a really good shot and the wind changes. If you look at the return and how I hit the ball, there are not many things to change. If the wind changes you every two times three… These days I have hit 15 blows that have stayed eight meters instead of a meter and a half”.
The boy became in the Spanish with the largest disputed, 94, one more than Olazabal. A collection in the Grand Slam in which a victory shines, in the 2017 Masters, and 23 classifications among the top 10. The record has been fastened in Boston despite a very complex start to the week. Back from London, where he made his Saudi Super League debut, a personal problem prevented him from reaching Brookline until Wednesday afternoon, just 20 hours before his big debut. He was barely able to walk the field with a wedge and a putter to take a look at the holes and jump into the ring on Thursday without filming. Few kilometers that did not avoid another stumble in the big ones. Since he won the Masters, that’s 13 missed cuts in 20 Grand Slam dates.
After the US Open, Sergio García will return to Europe to participate in the BMW Open in Munich, belonging to a European circuit that has not yet decided what measures to take regarding golfers affiliated with the Saudi league, like him. The man from Castellón will then return to the second LIV Golf event at the end of June in Portland.
Who did say goodbye without seeing the scrutiny was Adri Arnaus. The Catalan, from the same generation as Rahm (he is 24 days older than the Basque), closed the fourth major that he disputes in his career with +7 in the accumulated and a feeling of rage. After paddling all day, with the summit of a fabulous eagle on hole 8, he fainted in the last meters. A double bogey on the par three of the 16th sent his hopes down the drain and maybe some of his faith. On the 18th a birdie putt turned into a devastating bogey. His gas might have run out by then, having started the week sick and feverish. The express learning of what a US Open is in the middle of a wild rough is carried in the backpack.
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