The PGA Championship: Day 4
August 14 2011
5:31 pm Mickelson never got any momentum
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Phil Mickelson felt like he was "one good round" away from contending at the 93rd PGA Championship.
Mickelson closed with a 70 on Sunday that was a microcosm of his week. He was 2 under through six holes but simply couldn’t push it forward. And the final four holes exacted their pound of flesh — Mickelson played them in 3 over for the week.
The four-time major champion will now take next week off before entering the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup.
"Played okay," Mickelson said. "Played okay this week. Just not good enough to get up and make a run. Didn’t make enough birdies. … I felt like I was one good round away, 4- or 5-under par the first three days of getting in it, but just wasn’t able to do it. I just really struggled making birdies here.
"It’s very difficult to it get the ball close to a lot of the pins, other than the par 5s and I just didn’t make enough 30- , 40-footers."
Mickelson, who finished at even for the week, said he was encouraged at the turn on Sunday but a bogey at the 10th hole halted his momentum. And when he didn’t at least make birdie on the par-5 12th, Mickelson knew his chances were all but over.
"I certainly thought there was an opportunity there," Mickelson said. "It doesn’t look like now it’s going to matter because the scores are low, but at the time I was thinking it might."
Even so, Mickelson, who won his 39th PGA TOUR event earlier this year, was encouraged as he left the Atlanta Athletic Club.
"I thought that I had a lot of good signs this week," Mickelson said.
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If Phil doesn’t go to the long putter he really is an idiot….There would be no more pulls like he does,just touch the butt of it to your upper body…He would maybe win like Vj did in his fortys if he does…The long putter is the way to go unless the outlaw it!
I think it is time to FIRE THE COACHES, and go back to your best game. You have played worse I think with all the coaching you are now getting. Give it up and get going….
I have to say I agree with both Ron & Richard. Putting has been Phils’ problem for quite some time now, and it’s the short ones more so than the longer putts. As far as the coaches, I don’t know if they are the problem , but he certainly seems to be over thinking everything. This is a man with more natural talent than maybe anyone to have ever played the game, yet he just seems to over-think the shots sometimes. What ever the case he’s still the funnest to watch and route for.
I do think that his putting is a real sore spot this year. Not great this year and there wss a time that he was among the best on tour in that department.
Of course now, he is literally one of the longest players in tour history and he steers the ball better than anybody I have ever seen. I agree with Barry that he has more natural talent than nearly anybody.
I am hoping he turns it up for the FedEx playoffs. It would be nice for him to step it up in Tiger’s absence and I can’t help but feel like he is letting his last opportunity to be number one in the world slide by. It would be really cool if he got there.
Yeah phil, listen to even more advice from the knee jerkers, lose all your credibility and go to the crap putters crutch, the long putter. Should have been banned years ago.
PHIL .GET A LONG PUTTER BEFORE THEY SELL OUT , EVERYONE IS GETTING ONE ,apparently they fix all types of problems and if you can’t putt standing up use it like a billiard cue .
He needs to get rid of the blade, you have to be a great putter to use that and he isn’t anymore. You have to hit sweetspot for it to go where you want it.
Should head back to a more conventional putter, maybe a mallet.
Hopefully he never goes to a long putter, that’d be a horrible sight. Too good around the greens to ever use that.
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