Phil Mickelson Wins 2nd Masters, 3rd Major
Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters • Tiger Woods
Tags: Fred Couples • Masters Tournament • Phil Mickelson • Rocco Mediate
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters • Tiger Woods
Tags: Fred Couples • Masters Tournament • Phil Mickelson • Rocco Mediate
Alternate titles:
“If Freddy could putt, he might have a 2nd green jacket”
“If Tiger could putt, he might have his 5th green jacket”
“The ‘Phil Slam’ is only two major wins away”
Remember when everyone called Lefty “The best player to not have won a major?” Those days are long gone.
Phil took his TWO drivers and won is 2nd Masters with a well played 69. There’s a rumor floating around the web that one apparently isn’t on the USGA conforming list. More info on that later. His only bogey of the day was on 18 when it didn’t matter since he had a 3 stroke lead.
Nuggets
Rocco Mediate was in the hunt until he carded a 10 on #12 en route to a meltdown 80.
Fred Couples was very close to winning and would have been the oldest Masters champ had he done so. If only he could have made some putts today he and Eat would be happy.
Press Room
Press to Fred Couples: “Is there an optimum age for golf”
Freddy: “For Tiger it’s 16 and on…”
Press to Phil: “What do you think of the lengthening of Augusta National”
Phil: “I like it.” DOH!
Press to Phil: (paraphrasing) “Like Arnold and Jack you are trading Masters championships with Tiger.”
Phil: (paraphrasing) “I’m not interested in trading.”
Masters Final Leaderboard
| Pos | Player Name First/Last |
Scoring | Rounds | Total Score |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Thru | To Par | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 1 | Phil Mickelson | -3 | F | -7 | 70 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 281 |
| 2 | Tim Clark | -3 | F | -5 | 70 | 72 | 72 | 69 | 283 |
| 3 | Jose Maria Olazabal | -6 | F | -4 | 76 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 284 |
| 3 | Retief Goosen | -3 | F | -4 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 69 | 284 |
| 3 | Tiger Woods | -2 | F | -4 | 72 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 284 |
| 3 | Chad Campbell | -1 | F | -4 | 71 | 67 | 75 | 71 | 284 |
| 3 | Fred Couples | -1 | F | -4 | 71 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 284 |
| 8 | Angel Cabrera | -4 | F | -3 | 73 | 74 | 70 | 68 | 285 |
| 8 | Vijay Singh | -1 | F | -3 | 67 | 74 | 73 | 71 | 285 |
| 10 | Stewart Cink | -2 | F | -2 | 72 | 73 | 71 | 70 | 286 |
| 11 | Mike Weir | -2 | F | -1 | 71 | 73 | 73 | 70 | 287 |
| 11 | Miguel A. Jimenez | E | F | -1 | 72 | 74 | 69 | 72 | 287 |
| 11 | Stephen Ames | +1 | F | -1 | 74 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 287 |
| 14 | Billy Mayfair | E | F | E | 71 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 288 |
| 14 | Arron Oberholser | -1 | F | E | 69 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 288 |
| 16 | Scott Verplank | -1 | F | +1 | 74 | 70 | 74 | 71 | 289 |
| 16 | Geoff Ogilvy | -1 | F | +1 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 289 |
| 16 | Rod Pampling | E | F | +1 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 72 | 289 |
| 19 | Nick O'Hern | -1 | F | +2 | 71 | 72 | 76 | 71 | 290 |
| 19 | Stuart Appleby | -1 | F | +2 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 290 |
| 19 | David Howell | E | F | +2 | 71 | 71 | 76 | 72 | 290 |
| 22 | Darren Clarke | +5 | F | +3 | 72 | 70 | 72 | 77 | 291 |
| 22 | Robert Allenby | -1 | F | +3 | 73 | 73 | 74 | 71 | 291 |
| 22 | Davis Love III | E | F | +3 | 74 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 291 |
| 22 | Mark Hensby | +2 | F | +3 | 80 | 67 | 70 | 74 | 291 |
| 22 | Jim Furyk | +3 | F | +3 | 73 | 75 | 68 | 75 | 291 |
| 27 | Adam Scott | -1 | F | +4 | 72 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 292 |
| 27 | Carl Pettersson | +1 | F | +4 | 72 | 74 | 73 | 73 | 292 |
| 27 | Padraig Harrington | +2 | F | +4 | 73 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 292 |
| 27 | Shingo Katayama | +2 | F | +4 | 75 | 70 | 73 | 74 | 292 |
| 27 | Ernie Els | +4 | F | +4 | 71 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 292 |
| 32 | Brandt Jobe | -4 | F | +5 | 72 | 76 | 77 | 68 | 293 |
| 32 | Thomas Bjorn | -3 | F | +5 | 73 | 75 | 76 | 69 | 293 |
| 32 | Zach Johnson | -2 | F | +5 | 74 | 72 | 77 | 70 | 293 |
| 32 | Ted Purdy | -1 | F | +5 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 71 | 293 |
| 36 | Rocco Mediate | +8 | F | +6 | 68 | 73 | 73 | 80 | 294 |
| 36 | Rory Sabbatini | +2 | F | +6 | 76 | 70 | 74 | 74 | 294 |
| 36 | Tim Herron | +4 | F | +6 | 76 | 71 | 71 | 76 | 294 |
| 39 | Justin Leonard | -1 | F | +7 | 75 | 70 | 79 | 71 | 295 |
| 39 | Ben Curtis | +1 | F | +7 | 71 | 74 | 77 | 73 | 295 |
| 39 | Jason Bohn | +2 | F | +7 | 73 | 71 | 77 | 74 | 295 |
| 42 | Larry Mize | E | F | +8 | 75 | 72 | 77 | 72 | 296 |
| 42 | Luke Donald | +2 | F | +8 | 74 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 296 |
| 42 | Rich Beem | +7 | F | +8 | 71 | 73 | 73 | 79 | 296 |
| 45 | Olin Browne | +2 | F | +9 | 74 | 69 | 80 | 74 | 297 |
| 46 | Sergio Garcia | +1 | F | +10 | 72 | 74 | 79 | 73 | 298 |
| 47 | Ben Crenshaw | +7 | F | +12 | 71 | 72 | 78 | 79 | 300 |
Masters Sunday Modified TV Times
Extended Television Coverage Announcement: The conclusion of Saturday’s third round will be broadcast live on USA Nework beginning at 8:00am Sunday morning until its completion. The CBS broadcast will begin at its regularly scheduled time of 2:30 p.m.
Better check your TIVO settings….
Weather delay on day 3 of The Masters
There’s a minimum one hour delay currently (1:41 Eastern right now). There are tornado warnings in the area.
After day 2 of the Masters
I haven’t been posting as much as you’d think the biggest Masters freak on the planet would. Why? Because I’m soaking it all in. I’m computing it in the back of my brain, and I’m watching the Masters.org webcasts along with the TV broadcasts.
I haven’t gotten much sleep lately for various reasons so my brain is a bit fried too. Launching The Golf Space took it’s toll on me mentally and physically. Plus I’ve had a busy week in my “real” world that I live in outside of HOG.
Quick takes
Tiger has ’em right where he wants ’em. He never seems to start out hot at the Masters but come the weekend he’ll be right there.
Charles Coody, who was born in 1937, beat Charles Howell III by 10 shots today. So much for being young and a long ball hitter. I watched Howell on the Masters.org webcast take four swings to get out of the bunker on 11.
Duval’s exemptions are going to start running out. Though we’ve seen some flashes of a possible Duval return, I suspect he’ll disappear entirely in the next year or two.
There’s something interesting about the players on the leader board and I’m developing a new theory about The Masters and it’s winners. More to come…
All the stink about length and it’s not really that big of a factor. Sure there are some bombers on the leader board, but the Masters is about the greens. It’s about approach shots hitting the right quadrant of the green with the proper spin. It’s about putting most of all. Take the pressure and the tradition of the Masters and add in amazingly fast, heavily breaking greens and it’s pure entertainment.
I think Augusta National is getting exactly what they wanted from the course this year: two 67’s and a few rounds in the 60’s. No 65’s or anything crazy. There’s still scoring to be had out there but you have to play close to perfect to do it. That’s the idea.
Can Chad Cambell hold on to the lead for two more days? Na, I don’t think so.
Harvey Penick must be helping out Ben Crenshaw this week. Ben is -1 and tied for 10th. I’d love to see Ben finish very high or even win, but I think he’ll wear down.
Like I said, the Masters is about putting, which is why Sergio is tied for 30th. But hey, at least we’ll get to see the greatly anticipated green shoes.
Eat is loving the fact that Freddy is on the first page of the leader board. Or is he even aware of that? Perhaps he’s spending too much time posting pictures of Natalie Gulbis and Michelle Wie during FREAKING MASTERS WEEK.
How do I get this gig?
“NON-COMPETING MARKER” will be paired with Jim Furyk tomorrow morning at 10:40am.
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