Sometimes I nearly experience sorry for Phil Mickelson.
This week has been no distinct.
Thursday he nearly shot a fifty nine. Instead he made an amazing putt and got a ridiculously unlucky lip-out. He didn't do whatever wrong, he simply got a awful wreck.
Then Friday he almost set the record for the bottom 36-hole rating ever in a PGA Tour occasion. Instead he hit his tee shot in the water at the 18th and made a double bogey. I can't say I fault his logic -- he thought his driver could grow to be in a fairway trap so he hit a 3-timber as an alternative. He concept the three-timber could be sufficient.
But it wasn't.
It's not like he is having a terrible week. This is most effective the third time he is shot 60 in his profession, and he still shot 60-65 to tie the WM Phoenix Open 36-hollow document. And he nonetheless ended up with a 4-shot lead going into the weekend. Most people could pay precise cash for those 36 holes.
And but if Stan Lee had created Phil rather than Spiderman, his catchphrase possibly would have been "with first rate power comes the ability for terrific sadness." Phil does exceptional stuff and yet we so frequently experience that he's fallen quick. I don't know what it is want to be so exact at some thing that, even whilst you blow each person else out of the water, the information is the way you fell simply short of some thing. I'm now not sure I'd want to live my existence that manner, in any case... But it truly is existence for Phil Mickelson.
And this is why I almost feel sorry for him. I can't wait to peer what he almost does subsequent... But I discover myself hoping that, after this sort of extraordinary start, he does not nearly win the match.
The photograph came from this sfgate.Com article.
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