Bone's Fault??

[Kenny Lee Puckett]

According to Phil, Bones gets one pull of the club from Phil's hands annually.  I don't know if he had used it already this year, but maybe Phil will increase that # going forward to maybe once a Major.  I have numerous tugs of wars with my regular caddie, and he is smart enough to know who pays the frieght.  Unfortunately, we have many Mickelson moments together because I pull off the miracle once in a while.

Tragic...

Posted by: Glenn Spencer  Posted on: Yesterday at 10:59:55pm  
Quote from: Tom Zeni on Yesterday at 10:52:11pm
In an interview on PTI with Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon, Mickelson said that "Bones" only gets "ONE" club selection each year - and it can't be outside the US. So Bones can't say anything at the British Open.

Suffice to say, it's Phil's call, and Phil's call only.
 
 

I saw that myself and I would bet the farm he was being facetious.  


Glenn - More fact than fiction...

[Andy Scanlon]

Bones should have taken matters into his own hands and broken Phil's driver after the first hole.

[Jason Mandel]

Here's my question, what the HELL was Phil doing with that wood or rescue club out of the deep rough on 6??? He totally missed it, went about 5 yards and the he puts an 8 iron onto the green.

What was the point of hitting that wood if he was able to reach the green with an 8 iron???

Did anyone ask him that in the interview?

[Tom Huckaby]

Jason - that was queried.  Phil said the lie was SO awful, he had a better chance to advance it AT ALL (ie even get it to the fairway) with that 4-wood than he did with a wedge.  He wasn't really trying to get it on the green, just get it out.  And he had hit the shot a few times before, apparently.  After it went that few feet, the next lie wasn't nearly as bad.

So this one would seem to be OK.

TH

[Morais Miranda]

Forget about it being Bones' fault.  How do you think Dave Pelz is feeling, being that he is the "short game" guru in the golf world and has personally taken on Phil has his "student" of the short game, but when it comes down to a decision of hitting a HIGH cut 3 iron from the trampled rough over 85 year old towering trees or pitching out and trying to get up and down with a wedge from the fairway, Phil chose to abandon his short game to win! 3 occasions on Sunday Phil forgoed his short game skill to be a gambler and make the highlight reel.
His 4 wood 3rd shot abortion on the 5th, his driver on the 6th, rather than putting it in play in the short grass and using his 64 degree wedge to "place it" next to the pin with a lot of green behind the pin to pull the ball back and then of course the 18th.   I've played winged foot in September has a 7 handicap, yes I did double bogey 18 from the fiarway like Monty did, but.. I did birdie 5 and 6 like you're supposed to.  NO it wasn't for the open, but for $10 bucks which somehow means just as much...but I trusted my short game.. why didn't Phil???

[Glenn Spencer]

Here's my question, what the HELL was Phil doing with that wood or rescue club out of the deep rough on 6??? He totally missed it, went about 5 yards and the he puts an 8 iron onto the green.

What was the point of hitting that wood if he was able to reach the green with an 8 iron???

Did anyone ask him that in the interview?

How about 'laying it up' in the rough with a sand wedge from the bunker on the shot before that? I have played golf for a long time and if the lie was so bad, the last thing I am doing is trying to get a 4-wood on the ball if I am just trying to get it back to the fairway. IMO, this was a little show of hubris on his part and it cost him. I just wish Monty was the recipient as he should have been.

[Tom Zeni]

I saw that myself and I would bet the farm he was being facetious.

Glenn, I would have tended to agree with you, but if you recall Tony K pressed Phil on that point, but Phil didn't equivocate.

I recall David Tom's caddie talking him out of shot on the 18th, to lay up, and one putt which Tom's did. Now, if I can only recall the tournament. I'm thinking the TPC. Help, anyone?

[wsmorrison]

Tom,

That was the 2001 PGA Championship

[Tom Zeni]

Thanks Wayne. Two thumbs up for a superior golf memory bank!

[Jason Mandel]

Jason - that was queried.  Phil said the lie was SO awful, he had a better chance to advance it AT ALL (ie even get it to the fairway) with that 4-wood than he did with a wedge.  He wasn't really trying to get it on the green, just get it out.  And he had hit the shot a few times before, apparently.  After it went that few feet, the next lie wasn't nearly as bad.

So this one would seem to be OK.

TH

Tom,
I'm not buying it.  You can't possibly expect me to believe that he had a better chance of getting out of a horrible lie like that with a 18 degree four wood as opposed to a 64 degree sand wedge!  Just hard headed, boneheaded, in my opinion.

Jason

[Tom Huckaby]

Jason - well, that's what he said.  And the Golf Channel pundits confirmed that he had pulled off the shot a couple times prior.  In the end that ball wasn't going very far anyway given the awful lie - the fault there really was the PRIOR shot, out of the bunker - went for too much, hit it way too far.

TH

[PThomas]

I just wish Monty was the recipient as he should have been.

Glenn - you imply that Monty was more serving to win than Geoff:  why??

[Glenn Spencer]

I just wish Monty was the recipient as he should have been.

Glenn - you imply that Monty was more serving to win than Geoff:  why??

Mr. 185,

I am not implying that at all, but Monty was 4 over in the middle of the fairway. By all rights he should have been in the clubhouse at 5 and no worse. The question is could you have made 5 in Mickelson's situation?

[PThomas]

I just wish Monty was the recipient as he should have been.

Glenn - you imply that Monty was more serving to win than Geoff:  why??

Mr. 185,

I am not implying that at all, but Monty was 4 over in the middle of the fairway. By all rights he should have been in the clubhouse at 5 and no worse. The question is could you have made 5 in Mickelson's situation?

ok, I misunderstood ya

and hell even I , the lowly 15 handicapper might have been able to make 5 after Phil's tee ball!

and I might have been able to make 5 after Monty's drive

hey, I CAN play like the pros sometimes!

[Martin Del Vecchio]

Here's what Tiger would have said to himself on #18 tee:  "I have only hit 2 fairways all day; no way I hit the driver here.  I'll hit my 3-wood and go from there".

Here's what The Gambler says to himself:  "I have only hit 2 fairways all day.  I'm due for one now!  My number is up!"

The bottom line, however, is that Phil could have made an easy 5 after the tee shot, but didn't.