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Lefty goes 60

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Thu, Jan 31 2013 8:47 PM

  Mickelson with a helluva round at the Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale.  -11 60 for the day.  He was at -11 after the 16th hole (#7 at Scottsdale, as Phil started on the back), saying "I kinew in my mind I was gonna get 59", but then parred the last two to miss the rare 59.  Still an excellent round.

  I know how he feels... three times this week I have finished 7 scoring holes of a 9 and then parred the 8th.  Only once did I manage a birdie on 9.

• BubbaCrusher007 1,567 Posts

  Thu, Jan 31 2013 9:26 PM

  Congrats Phil. He had one that came up 2 inch's short on the 8th hole too. Really could have shot a 58 if that & the 1 on 18 went in.

• stevenharkin 1,921 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 12:13 AM

  watched some of that yest! i actually fancied fowler to win it, but good to see phil and tiger back in form! gonna be an exciting year for tv golf. well done phil (iknow you read these forums) :)

• borntobesting 9,706 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 3:51 AM

  Well that is one of the courses he grew up on. And he usually plays well there.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 9:45 AM

  borntobesting:

  Well that is one of the courses he grew up on.

  He grew up in San Diego. He graduated HS in San Diego in 1988.  TPC Scottsdale opened in 1986.  Sounds difficult to grow up on a course that didn't exist.

  Yep he went to ASU down the road in Tempe.  They have their own course, Karsten, to play on.  He certainly could have played the TPC a few times while there.

  And Phil lived here in Scottsdale for a while.

  But he does play well on that course having won the Phoenix Open there twice.

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Feb 1 2013 9:52 AM

  Heh-This sounds familiar.......

  “Six feet to go, it was in the center,” Mickelson said. “Three feet to go, it was in the center. A foot to go, it was in the center.”

  The ball somehow lipped out, and Mickelson settled for a first-round 60 that tied his career low, also at TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course, in 2005 en route to his second tournament title.

  NY Times