Phil Mickelson and his caddie, Jim Mackay, shouted mixed messages at Mickelson’s ball as it hung in the air on Muirfield’s 441-yard 15th hole.
Despite his second-round 72, Mickelson still has a chance to win on Sunday. Photo: Thomas Lovelock / Sports Illustrated
“Carry in the air,” Mackay said. “Go!”
“It’s all right,” Mickelson said.
Alas, Mackay was right to worry – the ball landed short and kicked not forward but dead right and into a pot bunker some 30 yards in front of the green.
“Oh, no!” Mickelson said. “What, are you kidding me? What in the world!?”
If you followed Game No. 33 on Saturday, you could hear how much Mickelson wants to win the 142nd British Open. And despite playing his last six holes in three over par, he’s not out of it.
That long, nasty bunker shot on 15 led to a bogey, which he followed with another bogey on the 195-yard 16th hole, and he signed for a one-over-par 72 and a two over total through 54 holes.
He is five back of Lee Westwood. But with only eight players ahead of him and in light of the final-round mayhem we’ve seen at recent Opens, that deficit is nothing. – Golf.com
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