{"id":53905,"date":"2020-08-26T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/phil-mickelson-on-cusp-of-snagging-first-pga-tour-champions-win\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T01:24:00","slug":"phil-mickelson-on-cusp-of-snagging-first-pga-tour-champions-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/phil-mickelson-on-cusp-of-snagging-first-pga-tour-champions-win\/","title":{"rendered":"#Phil Mickelson on cusp of snagging first PGA Tour Champions win"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Phil Mickelson on cusp of snagging first PGA Tour Champions win<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 25, 2020 |<\/span> 9:24pm <\/p>\n

\n RIDGEDALE, Mo. \u2014 The hole Phil Mickelson considered the most important in the second round of his PGA Tour Champions career was not any of the eight he birdied but rather the only one on which he made bogey.<\/p>\n

He was 5 under after the front nine Tuesday at Ozarks National when he hit driver at the par-4 10th. The ball wound up in such heavy rough that Mickelson couldn\u2019t find it, forcing him to take a penalty stroke. He still wound up making a long putt to salvage bogey, and that gave him some momentum for the rest of the round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to get right back to even par on the back side with a birdie on the next hole, and then I made a couple more coming in,\u201d said Mickelson, whose 7-under 64 left him 17 under.<\/p>\n

That was good for a four-shot lead over Tim Petrovic and Rod Pampling, who will be his playing partners for the final round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been putting really well,\u201d Mickelson said. \u201cToday I didn\u2019t drive it the way I\u2019ve been driving it. I kind of a hung a few drives, so I\u2019m going to the range and try to work on that now. But when I come out tomorrow I\u2019ll try to be a little bit more aggressive with the driver and see if I can make a few more birdies.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few more? He\u2019s already made 19 of them in his first 36 holes.<\/p>\n

Playing in the final group and with the shadows getting long, Mickelson picked up right where he left off after his opening-round 61. He made birdie at the third and then rattled off three straight beginning at the par-4 fifth, where he nearly chipped in for eagle.<\/p>\n

Petrovic tried to make a run at Mickelson, but even one of his career-low rounds only got him so close. His putter went cold down the stretch and a poor app<\/a>roach at the par-4 finishing hole resulted in bogey.<\/p>\n

Mickelson added a bridie at the ninth, the only hole he bogeyed on Monday, after a pretty flop shot over the bunker. After the lost ball at the 10th, Mickelson responded by adding two more birdies.<\/p>\n

The second of them at the par-3 12th was a backhanded tap-in. His approach shot barely carried onto the front edge of the green, then nestled up to about an inch from the hole.<\/p>\n

Mickelson could still squander the lead in the final round Wednesday, when tee times were moved to the early morning because of expected bad weather in the afternoon. But given the quality of his short game<\/a> through 36 holes, the more pressing question is whether he could break the PGA Tour Champions\u2019 54-hole scoring record of 191 \u2014 shared by Bruce Fleisher, Loren Roberts, Bernhard Langer, David Frost and Rocco Media<\/a>te.<\/p>\n

Mickelson, who decided to make his debut on the over-50 tour to continue his U.S. Open prep after he was eliminated from the PGA Tour\u2019s FedEx Cup playoffs, would need to shoot 65 in his final round Wednesday to move atop the list.<\/p>\n

Petrovic and Pampling each shot 64-65 over the first two rounds. Rocco Mediate struggled coming in and was at 12 under. K.J. Choi was another shot back, and Steve Stricker and David McKenzie were at 10 under.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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