{"id":279595,"date":"2021-06-21T07:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/phil-mickelson-disappointed-by-us-open-showing\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T04:06:35","slug":"phil-mickelson-disappointed-by-us-open-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/phil-mickelson-disappointed-by-us-open-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"#Phil Mickelson ‘disappointed’ by US Open showing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Phil Mickelson ‘disapp<\/a>ointed’ by US Open showing<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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SAN DIEGO \u2014 Phil Mickelson had been aiming at this U.S. Open like none other.<\/p>\n

He altered his usual routine leading into a major championship \u2014 playing a tournament the week before to stay sharp \u2014 to instead spend more time around Torrey Pines in the two weeks leading up to the event.<\/p>\n

Mickelson spent some five to six hours a day on the greens alone, analyzing and videotaping break tendencies. He came into the week still feeling confident from his PGA Championship victory last month and bullish on his chances.<\/p>\n

In the end, though, Mickelson could never put it together this week on one of his home courses as a youth, going out quietly on Sunday to finish the week at 11-over par.<\/p>\n

Mickelson\u2019s Sunday was anything like what he\u2019d envisioned entering the week, hoping to be in the heat of the mix in the final round with a chance to win. Instead, his was the fourth tee time of the day, at 7:03 a.m. alongside a qualifier named Greyson Sigg.<\/p>\n

They played in relative silence, which is a rarity for Mickelson, one of the most popular players in the history of the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I\u2019m disappointed I didn\u2019t play better,\u2019\u2019 Mickelson said after he was finished. \u201cI was kind of fighting it a little bit and struggled a little bit on Thursday. I really found something on Friday, and felt like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m just going to start playing like I did at Kiawah into the weekend,\u2019 and Saturday I lost it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Mickelson began the third round at 2-over par and seven shots out of the lead, hardly insurmountable with 36 holes remaining. But the 76 he shot on Saturday wrecked his chances of making any sort of charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happens,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI just lost the timing, the rhythm got quick and I started hitting it sideways, which you can\u2019t do out here.\u2019\u2019\u201cThere\u2019s some opportunities coming up with the way I\u2019ve been playing that I\u2019m optimistic that I can compete and contend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mickelson, who turned 51 on Wednesday, is scheduled to play the Travel<\/a>ers Championship this week in Cromwell, Conn., and he remains optimistic he\u2019ll return to the form he had at Kiawah Island.<\/p>\n

The worst break of the day came to Mackenzie Hughes, who entered the day with a share of the lead. Hughes hit a shot into a tree on the 11th hole, and it stayed up there. He was forced to take a drop and took double bogey to end his chances of winning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those breaks \u2026 like one-in-a-million break,\u2019\u2019 Hughes said. \u201cI\u2019ve played golf my entire life, and I\u2019ve never had a ball stuck in a tree. For it to happen on the back nine of a U.S. Open felt unfortunate because, if that ball is over there in the grass, I\u2019ve got a chance to get up-and-down for par, and that\u2019s a different outlook than trying to get up-and-down for bogey. Just a really bad break, and an unfortunate time to have it happen.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

It was quite a week for Matthew Wolff, who played this week after taking two months off for mental health reasons. Wolff was in contention right into Sunday\u2019s final round and finished tied for 15th.<\/p>\n

Afterward, he called the week \u201cmore than I hoped.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust enjoying myself this week was the main goal, and at the beginning of the week I was maybe even thinking the possibility of finishing dead last wasn\u2019t even out of my mind. And to come here and fight how I did, just battle to the end \u2026 unfortunately it didn\u2019t go my way, but I put a huge checkmark on this week as a success and just looking to build and get stronger and a little more mature.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Harris English, who finished 3-under for the tournament, had the lead in the clubhouse for a little while.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love these tournaments,\u2019\u2019 English said. \u201cFrom the U.S. Junior to the U.S. Amateur to now the U.S. Open, I love this golf. It\u2019s my mentality, and I think it really suits my game just plodding along, not having to shoot super aggressive and shoot low scores. I love championships and love scores like this. It\u2019s been a lot of fun this week.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

There was an interesting pairing Sunday with Richard Bland, the 48-yer-old Englishman who shared the 36-hole lead, and Italian Guido Migliozzi, who Bland beat in a playoff last month at the British Masters to capture his first career victory. Migliozzi shot 68 on Sunday to finish 2-under for the week and in a tie for fourth while Bland shot 78 and finished 8-over par.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably a game of two halves,\u2019\u2019 Bland said. \u201cThe first two days were great, and then I found out what the U.S. Open is really about. If there\u2019s something that\u2019s just 5 percent off, it just kills you out here. Overall it\u2019s been a positive week. I\u2019ll probably remember the first two days more than the second two.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

As for the Italian brothers, Francesco and Edoardo Molinari, Francesco got the better of his older brother, finishing even-par for the week while Edoardo finished 5-over.\n <\/div>\n

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