- the fact he's finished second more than anyone in history in this tournament and choked so close to the end so many times
- the whole daughter thing. When he lost to Payne Stewart, Stewart embraced him and said "Phil, you have a daughter!" as she had just been born. Phil arrived in the middle of the night for this tournament as he attended that same daughters grade 8 graduation the Wednesday night on the opposite side of the country
-Today is his birthday!
Last edited by Street Pharmacist; 06-16-2013 at 11:12 AM.
Well that sucks. What should have been a great day of golf turns to crap.
Tough for Phil as he did pretty much everything right, didn't do his crazy Phil shots and misses out by one stroke after leaving about 7-8 putts that missed by less than an inch on the course.
Whenever a course this hard hosts a US Open, i think there are dozens of players who leave thinking "what if".
Rose was clutch with he driver and putter. He wasnt scrambling down the stretch. Phil was solid, went for it and lost. Day may be the most clutch scrambler in the game today.
That was very exciing down the stretch.
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Well that sucks. What should have been a great day of golf turns to crap.
Tough for Phil as he did pretty much everything right, didn't do his crazy Phil shots and misses out by one stroke after leaving about 7-8 putts that missed by less than an inch on the course.
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Originally Posted by DoubleK
What does Phil have to do win one?!?!
Phil did himself in on two shots from roughly 135 yards.
That short par 3 (14 I think) where he put it over the green, and made bogey, and then on the par 4, after a beauty drive he had 135 or so yards left and pushed it left and drew it back to the front of the green. That's when he had no choice but to chip it from the front of the green over the ridge, hit it thin and way past and then ended up with bogey there as well.
Too bad, but those are shots where he probably comes away with par or better 8 or 9 times out of 10. Huge mistakes, and it cost him.
Surprised not to see this posted with how hard the course was. First ever ace at the U.S. Open at Merion and the 43rd in U.S. Open history. Yeah, a little luck was involved as well.
