After the 2nd round of the PGA Championship Phil Mickelson has a 4 stroke lead at -8. Quite honestly, this large lead came as a total surprise to me. Phil hasn’t been playing well enough to show signs of a pending major championship win.
It just goes to show what a hot putter can do for Phil. He hasn’t been stellar in his GIR or driving accuracy so far. When he shot his 59 in Hawaii earlier this year, his putter was the reason and not his driving accuracy.
The only question about Phil is can he hold on?
A bigger story than Phil leading the PGA is that Tiger made the cut. The cut line was +4 and Tiger needed to birdie the 18th hole to be there. Fortunately for Tiger, 18 (par 5) wasn’t too difficult. He knocked a 7 iron on in two and two putted no problem. Tiger’s all major cut streak continues.
Memo to TNT: Charles Barkley is NOT someone I want doing commentary on golf. I already know Vijay Singh is a “good player.” And please for the love of God TNT, don’t show Chuck’s swing on TV again.
Memo to Andrew Ciciliano who was filling in on the Jim Rome radio show today: It is NOT something new for Phil to hit long drives. He IS a long player. It is nothing new for Phil to hit bombs. I don’t recommend a full time golf broadcast commentary gig for you Andrew.
I got home today from a morning round of golf and work in the afternoon. I just sat down to watch today’s first round of the PGA Championship on my Tivo. Unfortunately someone in my family canceled my recording 49 minutes in.
Instead of the PGA, I have the choice of Lizzy McGuire, Oprah or Dr. Phil on my recordings list. You could fry an egg on my head right now… AHHHHHGGG!
So the short story is we have a logjam at -3 after round one, with Phil one of them. Meanwhile Tiger is at +5, 8 shots off the lead? Wow, talk about the opposite start everyone anticipated.
Last night there was some fine entertainment at the PGA Championship news conference.
The first question out of the box from the press to Sergio was whether or not he thought Tiger was back to his year 2000 dominance and whether or not it was good for the game.
Sergio’s reaction was awesome. He got this sick look on his face and turned to look away for a few seconds. (paraphrasing) Then all he could say was “excuse me?” After the reporter repeated the question Sergio said “he’s got his problems and I’ve got my problems and we’ll try to work those out.” I’m not sure even Sergio knows what that means…
This relates back to my post about the Battle of the Boredom where Phil was agitated by the Tiger questions.
Memo to PGA Tour pros:
If you don’t want to have to answer all the “Tiger” questions there’s an easy solution:
Beat him.
Up until last week or so I’d never posted a picture of myself here. I didn’t have any particular reason other than to keep that aura of mystery about what I look like.
By posting a pic of myself, I’ve apparently opened myself up as a target for all the photoshoppers out there to have fun with. Here’s one from my pal and fellow golf blogger Rich at Eat Golf.
He somehow got the REAL picture of me with the beer babes and not the one where I photoshopped myself in with Jack. Nice going Rich!
Wolf Creek Golf Club: Extreme beauty, extreme golf
As I’ve said in several posts here previously, Mesquite Nevada is becoming a golf mecca. Mesquite was once a tiny little state line gambling town between Utah and Vegas. Years ago there was basically one casino there called the Peppermill and nothing else. Now Mesquite boasts several fairly large casinos and several amazing golf courses.
Wolf Creek Golf Club is definitely in the “amazing” category. It is more amazing from a scenic, design and architectural standpoint than from a golf purist’s standpoint.
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