Looking at Mickelson's 60

A few weeks in the past I wrote a column at GolfWRX on how birdie putts are inherently more difficult than non-birdie putts. You can see that column here:

http://www.Golfwrx.Com/63409/what-does-it-take-for-the-first-rate-to-go-low/

Here?S a table showing the make percent on Tour among birdie and non-birdie putts:

The factor being is that a good way to make birdies, you have to get birdie shots in the direction of the cup and give your self greater possibilities inside the cup. The ?Cut-off? Point seems to be 20 feet and in.

Here?S a examine Mickelson?S major metrics:

60 (-eleven)

eleven birdies

zero Bogeys

eight/14 fairways hit

sixteen/18 GIR

-thirteen G.I.R.O. Score

Phil had 12 birdie putts interior 20 toes. He made 10 of these birdie putts.

His different birdie got here on a putt at the par-four 1st hollow in which he made a 22-footer.

I?M sure a few will say ?Properly, he?S a bomb-n-gouger and that?S why he went low.? Well, now not pretty.

His average force went 296 yards.

Like he normally has done, he has driven the ball ineffectively through Tour standards.

He located deep hard on #2 from a wayward tee shot, flew it over the inexperienced after which had to make a pleasing up-and-down to shop par.

He found the green bunker at the par-5 3rd hollow which value him being able to move for the green in two shots. He laid up, then stiff a wedge to a much less than 2 feet and made birdie.

Phil determined the deep hard off the tee on #6 and overlooked the inexperienced and needed to rise up-and-down for par.

He observed the deep difficult on #11 and stiffed one from 178 yards to 8-toes and made the birdie.

He determined the fairway bunker once more on #13 and will handiest hit his subsequent shot about 90 yards, then stiffed his subsequent shot from one hundred sixty five yards to 3 feet and made birdie.

Outside of those very bad drives, Phil become capable of get any other nine technique shots inner 20 ft for birdie. Of course, there has been the fifteenth and seventeenth holes in which he changed into now not taking full approach photographs into the hole, however that is nonetheless 7 full approach photographs that Lefty become able to stick inner 20-ft from the cup. And he made a whopping eighty three.3% of them.

For at the present time, Mickelson used his splendid iron play and placing to get him to -11 under par.

3JACK