![]() He was at 3-over in the first round at the PGA Championship and things didn’t get much better. Mickelson so far hasn’t played up to his Masters standards where he tied for second in April. I guess in January they changed that to where you just only get line-of-sight.” “I didn’t know that they changed the rule this year, whereby you normally could take the point in line and then you have that two-club-length semicircle. “I ended up hitting it in the hazard and took line-of-sight and came back,” Mickelson continued. Mickelson was already 5-over after 36 holes, right on the cut line. ![]() Phil Mickelson struggles but makes cut: ‘I played terrible’ “The guy came over and saved me a penalty because I had dropped it in the ruling under last year and didn’t realize it had been changed, and he came and saved me a stroke, so I was very appreciative,” Mickelson said after his round. Phil Mickelson celebrates after a birdie on the fifth hole during the second round of the PGA Championship. The second rules official agreed with the first and Mickelson thanked the first for preventing him from making a mistake. Subsequently, he planned to give himself two club lengths of relief and when asking playing partner Rickie Fowler how it looked, Fowler gave a thumbs up that he was in the clear.Ī rules official disagreed, making his way over to Mickelson to tell him that it was an incorrect drop and he would have resulted in a 1-stroke penalty if he played his ball from the wrong position.Īt first, he argued against the rules official and asked for a second opinion. On the sixth hole, Mickelson, 52, hit his tee shot into the water along the right side of the fairway and afterwards he dropped a ball where he believed the original shot had entered the water. Phil Mickelson’s PGA Championship was saved by a rules official during the second round at Oak Hill Country Club on Friday. PGA Championship final round ratings sink to 15-year low ![]() What I actually told Brooks Koepka during awkward-looking moment: PGA CEO Michael Block’s cocky Rory McIlroy boast may have gone too far Paige Spiranac backs golf darling after Cinderella story took sad turn ![]()
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