How you dont decide to pitch out and try to get a wedge in tight is mind blowing. Best part of your game and you try a miracle shot instead. Im guessing Bones tried and failed to convince him.
Completely agree. He knew the score, he knew Ogilvie had parred. He knew a par would win and a bogey would get him into a playoff. And after he sliced his drive into the tent, he should have also known a scrambling four was within his grasp -- and he didn't need a miracle shot to get there. I remember watching this. Other players had a chance on 18 and dropped the ball, as it were, including Furyk and Monty. I was yelling at the screen for him to punch out. He should have remembered what David Toms did at the PGA five years earlier in 2001...against no other than he, himself. Toms was leading Phil by one stroke going into 18. He put his drive into the rough. Rather than play a risky shot over the water, he lays up to a comfortable position. He puts his third shot to within 12 ft and drained one of the most pressure putts he ever faced -- for par. Mick was on in two, but 32 ft out. He gave the putt a good ride, and it barely missed. And it was Toms' day for celebrating. This was a lesson Mick could have taken with him on that fateful 18th at Winged Foot. Know your game and Trust your game. Let's not forget that Mick had won the previous two Majors; the 2004 PGA and the 2005 Masters. The US Open would have given him 3-in-a-row and a chance for the 'McSlam' at the Open Champ. It was a tough lesson in course management. I believe only Ben Hogan had three consecutive modern-day majors and of course the Tiger-Slam in 2000-1. Glad to see Mick get his share of history at the 2021 PGA.
jean van de velde fired his longtime caddy after his diaster....looking back when jean reached for the driver on 18....caddy should have handed him a 3wood or less
Ogilvy did his best Ben Curtis impression Sometimes you collapse and you hang on because the guys behind you collapse too, that's also part of the sport
Phil has always said it was the 2nd shot that killed him. He was driving it awful all day so he doesn’t regret the drive, he regrets the 2nd shot. He just didn’t carve it enough and give himself enough room to cut it around the tree. His short game was so good that week. He just wanted to get it up around the green somewhere. Looking back, I don’t get why he didn’t just advance it into the fairway and try to get it up and down from 100yds with a wedge. If he doesn’t, he’s in a playoff the next day. Hindsight is always 20/20.
The second shot decision was bad, but Phil only hit 2 fairways out of 13 drives heading into that hole. You leave the driver in the bag in that situation.
@@tonyc7301 He's talked about that. His next club in the bag was a 4-wood I believe. It wasn't enough club to get to the corner off the tee. He needed to hit driver.
You would think they would have had another camera angle on Phil's second shot on 18. It "caught an elm tree solid", yet there is no video at all of the ball in flight, nor was there video of the ball in flight on the third shot. Hard to believe.
Of all the U.S. Opens Phil should have won, this one stands out the most to me. If he leaves the driver in the bag, at worst he’s in a playoff. This was indicative of his “If you ain’t first, you’re last” mentality that still cropped up from time to time.
Well to be fair the others gagged too. - Ogilvy (the winner!) had a 2-stroke lead in the middle of the round, made 4 bogeys in the middle of the round to fall behind and needed a miracle par on 17 and an up-and-down on 18 just to post +5. At the time it looked like it would be 1 or 2 short. - Montgomerie made a miracle putt on 17 to get to +4, hit a poor approach on 18, a poor pitch shot then a horrible 3-putt from inside 20 feet to make double. - Furyk missed a 5-foot par putt on 18 which would have put him at +5. - Harrington got to +4 with 3 holes to go. Bogeyed them all to finish at +7. Believe it or not Ogilvy actually played the worst golf down the stretch, +4 in the last 11 holes which was the worst score among the contenders. He really won it with his play in the first 7 holes.
Exactly right. Ogilvy choked on every shot when the pressure was on. He lucked into chipping in on 17, and made a good up and down on 18, but only after whiffing the approach. He was the least deserving winner of the bunch.
@@Hillbillykaren Oh yes we were little girl.. I should had said myself and my wife were there.She 's a big Phil fan. Had just been to the beer tent while Geoff Ogilvy was playing 17. Were you there? We don't remember you.
I got to play this course right after the open in 2006. Shot an 82... in the rain. I played with head pro Tom Nieporte. The rough was just about an instant 1 shot penalty. Very difficult to dig your ball out. The bunkers on some holes are ridiculously deep and again very tough to get out of. It's a super lot more undulated than you see on TV. Very challenging.
I’m convinced that if I was caddying for Phil on the 18th tee, he would have won the US Open or made the playoff. He needed a par to win it, a bogey 5 for a playoff, and to make probably 3 mistakes on one hole is ridiculous! He totally blew it!!!
Nowadays, no one really needs a driver on 18 for the pros. Most players can easily take a long iron into the fairway, around 240-250 out, and then have around 200 left in, which is around a 6 iron.
@@adityaniwalkar6224 That was then and this is now Also Mickelson was hitting it all over the lot, if you banana slice a fairway wood into the deep rough now you're really in trouble
He hit 2 out of 13 fairways on the day heading into that hole. You leave the driver in the bag. The decision on the second shot was awful. Just advance it down the fairway and leave yourself a short wedge into the green. With Phil's short game he still had a good shot at par and a bogey at absolute worst.
Phil has 6 second place finishes at the U.S. open and this is the one that he 100% should have won. He was in his absolute prime and had won the two previous majors. Just three horrible shots in a row and two terrible decisions in a row on that hole. Phil had only hit 2 fairways out of 13 drives on the day and still took out driver on the hole, knowing a par would win the tournament. How the heck he tried to go for the green on the second shot was insane. I know he won many tournaments with his go for broke style, but that was not the situation to try that low percentage shot.
There was one option you didn’t mention, the best one actually. Punch out and advance it down the fairway. It’s not complicated at all. With his wedge game he’d have at minimum a 50% chance at 4….and a 95 % chance at 5. It was the dumbest decision of his career.
Not really. Phil has always come off as having a phony "jovial" guy persona, while in earnest, he's a gambling-addicted, entitled showoff. He puts on the appearance of an outgoing friendly guy, but his character underneath has always been suspect. No one with a gambling addiction like his is to be revered.
You MUST understand what the U.S. Open truly means. Your biggest opponent is the golf course, all others are secondary. That's why these courses are chosen: to kick your ass!
7:45 “…going to the ceremony for second place.” He most certainly did not. He sat in the scorer’s tent, and “respectfully declined” to be interviewed. Watch the telecast.
One of the best wedge players ever, getting out of trouble and then sticking a wedge by the pin was where he should have relied...why o why woild he try that shot
This couldn't have happened to a more DESERVING guy. When the pressure was on, this guy was an absolute trainwreck. This is absolutely amazing to watch. Love it.
For real? He won 57 worldwide events including 6 Majors. You don’t do that by being a train wreck when the pressure is on. Yes, he threw away at least 2 U.S. Opens, but that comes with the territory of his playing style. Only because the majority of best playing days paralleled Tiger Woods is not considered an even greater golfer than he already is. Name one golfer in the last 40 years not named Tiger Woods that is more accomplished than Phil Mickelson.
As bad as this is, what happened to Monty about 15 minutes earlier might be worse. He is DEAD CENTER of the fairway on 18 at +4. From there, he has an interminable wait for Vijay Singh and he second-guesses his club selection, hits his 2nd shot to the worst possible place and makes a 6, which costs him one of his best chances to win a major. You have to think Monty reflects on the 18th at Winged Foot just as much as Mickelson does.
Yes a punch out into the fairway would have been the play here but that's just not Phil Mickelson. I think if he had a do over he'd play it the same way.
Nowhere near as bad, but he indeed has his legacy in his hands. Mito had to avoid the creek to the right. Almost makes you think that he joined LIV so that he can put that out of his memory easier.
It seems like this loss at Winged Foot got into Phil's head and stayed for future US Opens. Still holding out hope he can get the grand slam, but the long game from players like DeChambeau, D Johnson, Wolff are closing the door.
That’s true though I remember vintage Phil, he always went for it .. didn’t matter if he only had a small opening the size of a hula hoop, he was going for it . Super entertaining to watch . Support Phil ! 💪 💯
I've never known why he chose to hit a driver when his driving game was terrible that day. He should have hit a 3 wood or a long iron. My guess is that he wanted to bomb a huge drive and give himself a little wedge to the green, where he would have won it for sure.
@@qwaszx2 I remember Colin Montgomery choked on the same hole earlier in the round with a double bogey. He should have won it too if not Mickelson. He hit a 3 wood off the tee. He hit a perfect shot right in the middle of the fairway, which left him between a six and seven iron to the green. He went with the seven and came up short in the rough. He had trouble getting out of it and ended up with a double bogey just like Mickelson. A bogey would have gotten him into a playoff. And Jim Furyk missed a three foot putt that would also have gotten him into a playoff. So Mickelson wasn't the only one who blew it that day. It was a brutal hole.
Phil was 5 shots better than field, tee to green, at ridiculous Shinnecock set-up but Goodsen made every putt he looked at down the stretch-----that was Phil's best shot at OPEN
Mickleson played it like an amateur, Ogilvy played it like a US Open champion. Ogilvy pars the last 4 holes including driving the 18th fairway - into a divot. He escapes out short of the green, plays an excellent high pitch then drains the 10 footer.
I love the people disparaging Phil. "Second best"....."He ain't no Tiger". Meanwhile Phil is in the best shape of his life while Tiger is having his 40th surgery and probably in rehab every other month to get off the pills, not to mention the car accidents, you name it. Shit, no one gets as pumped for Tiger as me. We were born 6 days apart and my nickname by my grandfather was, in fact, Tiger. I was made fun of by my family because of that. No one had even heard of Tiger outside of the golfing world and mostly in California. I'm talking 80's timeline. But to say Phil is some kind of second-class golfer is a joke. Phil might win the Masters well into his 50's. Tiger was the best in his prime at 25-35, but Phil is one of those guys that ages like fine wine. We don't realize yet how lucky we have been to see the great players of the 90's and 00's. Before club and ball technology made good players great. Now it is a strength and mental challenge. I hope Phil wins the US Open here in a couple of weeks. It'll be vindication from the multitude of times he came up a shot short. I was happy that Payne won in '99 after about 6 months later, but it's about time for Phil to cash one of those rain checks.
What is ridiculous is that Ogilvy would have not survived a 18 holes playoffs against Phil. He was such a real idiot not going for the boguey and force it.
It's probably worse than Van Velde because Phil is a far more accomplished player. He made three bad swings in a row. Should have hit a long iron off the tee and make no worse than five..What is inexcusable is that he'd already won two majors...
Disagree. You correctly state that he is an accomplished Player, he is also an accomplished 'get out of trouble Player'. He is renowned for his ability to craft the exact type of shot he was attempting, so why shouldn't he play to his strengths? He's regularly in that position, due to his sloppy driving. The shot in question, a big fade with a 3 iron, is really not that difficult for a Touring Pro, he just didn't catch it right, obviously. He would have correctly surmised that even if the sliced 3 iron didn't quite make the green, he would have had a chip, one of his strengths, and a putt to win. This would have been a similar scenario to the punch it back on to the fairway option, which he must have considered. I think that you are being a little unfair, and harsh, to call it 'inexcusable' as the strategy seemed to be correct. I don't think he made 3 bad swings, just 1, the Drive, the other 2, trying to work the ball out of a not ideal lie, always were risky.
Van De Velde's was the worst I think, because Van De Velde had already recieving a gift from the golfing Gods when he hit a wayward drive on 18. It somehow avoided the burn. Not content with being saved from a lifetime of regret, Van De Velde tempted fate yet again. It amused me when people suggest that Van De Velde may have been unlucky on his second shot, as if rattling a ball into the grandstand wouldn't bring disaster into play. Suggestions that Van De Velde's second shot was unlucky because it hit a one inch point and backed into the burn is really misunderstanding the situation.
These guys are obviously fan boys of Phil and couldn't bring themselves to state the obvious, that Mickelson had a brain explosion. To suggest by Mickelson showing up to the presentation was some heroic gesture was laughable. Of course he is obligated to be there!
Lord, take the amount of money that you’ve made in your career, whatever it is that you do. Now double it and I’ll tell you that we’ll pay you that amount just to come to our company and then you earn more the better you do. Btw, instead of working a 4 day a week schedule, it’s down to three days. You’re saying no? Please.
@@walterheisenberg251 I’d that’s all that’s important to you, that’s right, take the money and run. And there’s a reason no one watches LIV and PGA ratings are down precipitously. He was golf ambassador. He had a responsibility to the game, like the greats before him. And he blew it up.
The winners take was $1.2 for winning the 2006 US Open. If you watch closely Mickelson goes into porta potty and live bets against himself after 17. He won $1.5 large on bet plus the 2nd place pot, more than doubling his take if he had won. The LIV guys know where it’s at ….
The "Let's go Phil" chants by the drunk New York cretins on 18 was so out of line and in appropriate that it is hard to put into words. Totally the wrong time for that, and it was disgusting.
There was a kid who asked Phil for an autograph when he was close to his ball after his drive (could have been after the second shot). The Kids' father yanked him out of the way and said...no (in a nice enough manner to his kid). But the fans surrounding 18 when Phil is plugged in the bunker, having essentially blown the US Open, who kept screaming Let's go Phil nonstop should have been escorted off the property (and it was most of the people).
The lady doth protest too much in these comments. Phil's EXACT same aggressiveness/stupidity/temerity whatever you want to call it, win him his third Masters from the pine straws at 13th's second shot. That's who he is, and if he's not that, he's a gambler. As we all know, he's not a good one consistently. That's his whole freakin' life right there. At least he's living it on his terms, and BTW, I hate LIV.
Remember it very well, Montgomery made a complete twat of himself that was a great watch, and then big Phil absolutely topped it a fantastic melt down on 18 hilarious 😂😂😂
Not surprising. Maybe he had Bones double that one down for him in the 18th tee. Makes Pete Rose look like a poker. Bones is gustcas much a grifter as Mickelson.
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How you dont decide to pitch out and try to get a wedge in tight is mind blowing. Best part of your game and you try a miracle shot instead. Im guessing Bones tried and failed to convince him.
how is he supposed to hit a miracle shot when he can't even hit the fairway so I 100% agree with what your saying
Completely agree. He knew the score, he knew Ogilvie had parred. He knew a par would win and a bogey would get him into a playoff. And after he sliced his drive into the tent, he should have also known a scrambling four was within his grasp -- and he didn't need a miracle shot to get there. I remember watching this. Other players had a chance on 18 and dropped the ball, as it were, including Furyk and Monty. I was yelling at the screen for him to punch out. He should have remembered what David Toms did at the PGA five years earlier in 2001...against no other than he, himself. Toms was leading Phil by one stroke going into 18. He put his drive into the rough. Rather than play a risky shot over the water, he lays up to a comfortable position. He puts his third shot to within 12 ft and drained one of the most pressure putts he ever faced -- for par. Mick was on in two, but 32 ft out. He gave the putt a good ride, and it barely missed. And it was Toms' day for celebrating. This was a lesson Mick could have taken with him on that fateful 18th at Winged Foot. Know your game and Trust your game.
Let's not forget that Mick had won the previous two Majors; the 2004 PGA and the 2005 Masters. The US Open would have given him 3-in-a-row and a chance for the 'McSlam' at the Open Champ. It was a tough lesson in course management. I believe only Ben Hogan had three consecutive modern-day majors and of course the Tiger-Slam in 2000-1. Glad to see Mick get his share of history at the 2021 PGA.
@@bman342a it was the 05' PGA and 06' masters. But I agree
@@johnnybgood7442 Tru dat
Amen
Phil was doing his best Jean van de Velde impression. This was when he was at the top of his game. He was going for 3 majors in a row. Sad ending.
jean van de velde fired his longtime caddy after his diaster....looking back when jean reached for the driver on 18....caddy should have handed him a 3wood or less
Ogilvy did his best Ben Curtis impression
Sometimes you collapse and you hang on because the guys behind you collapse too, that's also part of the sport
Phil has always said it was the 2nd shot that killed him. He was driving it awful all day so he doesn’t regret the drive, he regrets the 2nd shot. He just didn’t carve it enough and give himself enough room to cut it around the tree. His short game was so good that week. He just wanted to get it up around the green somewhere. Looking back, I don’t get why he didn’t just advance it into the fairway and try to get it up and down from 100yds with a wedge. If he doesn’t, he’s in a playoff the next day. Hindsight is always 20/20.
His short game that week too, up and down from 100 out was a really good probability for working...
The second shot decision was bad, but Phil only hit 2 fairways out of 13 drives heading into that hole. You leave the driver in the bag in that situation.
@@tonyc7301 He's talked about that. His next club in the bag was a 4-wood I believe. It wasn't enough club to get to the corner off the tee. He needed to hit driver.
He was always a 2nd shot glory kind of guy . He used to never find fairways too often - like Seve - an escape artist by trade .
You would think they would have had another camera angle on Phil's second shot on 18. It "caught an elm tree solid", yet there is no video at all of the ball in flight, nor was there video of the ball in flight on the third shot. Hard to believe.
I feel like throwing up every time I watch this
So does Phil...
same so awful watching ut live
Now you know what it feels like to be an Australian when Mize pulled that f*cking chip out his arse against Norman at the Masters.
And on the flip side?
Geof Ogilvy is all class, and one of the nicest guys on Tour
Meh not really.
@@SpeedzyWGJK Ooh! Insider knowledge? Spill the beans!
@@SpeedzyWGJKOgilvy has way more class than Mickelson who is a king tosser who choked big time.
He’s a nobody lol
Of all the U.S. Opens Phil should have won, this one stands out the most to me. If he leaves the driver in the bag, at worst he’s in a playoff. This was indicative of his “If you ain’t first, you’re last” mentality that still cropped up from time to time.
1 Million Percent correct. Bones failed him
Supposedly, his next longest club in his bag was a 4 wood, and that wasn’t going to get the job done.
@@Droogs Well put!! 👍
Well to be fair the others gagged too.
- Ogilvy (the winner!) had a 2-stroke lead in the middle of the round, made 4 bogeys in the middle of the round to fall behind and needed a miracle par on 17 and an up-and-down on 18 just to post +5. At the time it looked like it would be 1 or 2 short.
- Montgomerie made a miracle putt on 17 to get to +4, hit a poor approach on 18, a poor pitch shot then a horrible 3-putt from inside 20 feet to make double.
- Furyk missed a 5-foot par putt on 18 which would have put him at +5.
- Harrington got to +4 with 3 holes to go. Bogeyed them all to finish at +7.
Believe it or not Ogilvy actually played the worst golf down the stretch, +4 in the last 11 holes which was the worst score among the contenders. He really won it with his play in the first 7 holes.
Exactly right. Ogilvy choked on every shot when the pressure was on. He lucked into chipping in on 17, and made a good up and down on 18, but only after whiffing the approach. He was the least deserving winner of the bunch.
@@tomdallas3690 He was the only winner! What, there was no pressure on his up and down on 18?
Damn statistics!
I was really pulling for Monty.
@tomdallas3690 obviously a Mickelson fan boy here who can't bring himself to acknowledge that leftie choked and Ogilvy won.
Great stuff Geoff.... you played the 18th perfectly and won....
I was there on the teebox at 18! What I remember is the shot and Phil groaning "Oh noooooo". Beautiful golf course by the way.
No you weren't
@@Hillbillykaren Oh yes we were little girl.. I should had said myself and my wife were there.She 's a big Phil fan. Had just been to the beer tent while Geoff Ogilvy was playing 17. Were you there? We don't remember you.
@@tallan9698 you said Phil has had your wife?
I got to play this course right after the open in 2006. Shot an 82... in the rain. I played with head pro Tom Nieporte. The rough was just about an instant 1 shot penalty. Very difficult to dig your ball out. The bunkers on some holes are ridiculously deep and again very tough to get out of. It's a super lot more undulated than you see on TV. Very challenging.
How hard is it compared to Shinnecock, Oakland Hills or Pinehurst No. 2, which has upturned bowls for greens?
@@nathanwilliams2152 Never played any of those courses. All I know is that Winged Foot West is a freakin' bear. Undulations galore.
"+5 is the lead..." damn, times have changed...
It’s just course setup, just 5 years ago we had everyone over par and this year is expected to play hard too
Bryson was the only player under par here in 2020 Thats how difficult this track is
Course setup… people forget how hard it used to be when they had real rough.. now it’s just short stuff
@@SpeedzyWGJKDon’t worry. Oakmont, Merion and Pebble are all now part of the US Open’s main rota. You’ll get your rough fix aplenty
@@Nick_J_ yeah they have been for a while
I’m convinced that if I was caddying for Phil on the 18th tee, he would have won the US Open or made the playoff. He needed a par to win it, a bogey 5 for a playoff, and to make probably 3 mistakes on one hole is ridiculous!
He totally blew it!!!
Nowadays, no one really needs a driver on 18 for the pros. Most players can easily take a long iron into the fairway, around 240-250 out, and then have around 200 left in, which is around a 6 iron.
@@adityaniwalkar6224 That was then and this is now
Also Mickelson was hitting it all over the lot, if you banana slice a fairway wood into the deep rough now you're really in trouble
If you were his caddy, he would have missed the cut.
He hit 2 out of 13 fairways on the day heading into that hole. You leave the driver in the bag. The decision on the second shot was awful. Just advance it down the fairway and leave yourself a short wedge into the green. With Phil's short game he still had a good shot at par and a bogey at absolute worst.
@@tonyc7301 Supposedly, his next longest club in his bag was a 4 wood, and that wasn’t going to get the job done.
Mickelson has had great triumphs and heart-breaking oh-so-closes. He said after this tournament that he played stupidly on the final hole.
Welcome to my world.I play stupidly on every hole.
@@davewanamaker3690 haha
Mickelson choked hard on this hole
Phil has 6 second place finishes at the U.S. open and this is the one that he 100% should have won. He was in his absolute prime and had won the two previous majors. Just three horrible shots in a row and two terrible decisions in a row on that hole. Phil had only hit 2 fairways out of 13 drives on the day and still took out driver on the hole, knowing a par would win the tournament. How the heck he tried to go for the green on the second shot was insane. I know he won many tournaments with his go for broke style, but that was not the situation to try that low percentage shot.
Supposedly, his next longest club in his bag was a 4 wood, and that wasn’t going to get the job done.
'I won't ever change. Not tomorrow, Sunday, or at Augusta'
Truly lived up to those words here.
My favorite video of all time
You either love Phil, or don't love Phil. I admire your candor.
There was one option you didn’t mention, the best one actually. Punch out and advance it down the fairway. It’s not complicated at all. With his wedge game he’d have at minimum a 50% chance at 4….and a 95 % chance at 5. It was the dumbest decision of his career.
Easily one of my Top 5 favorite golf moments
Should have taken a leaf out of Ernie Els' 1994 win. Hit onto the fairway, take 5 and take your chances of winning the playoff the next day
You gotta like Phil. Second best golfer of his era. Damn you Tiger. Hahaha
Not really. Phil has always come off as having a phony "jovial" guy persona, while in earnest, he's a gambling-addicted, entitled showoff. He puts on the appearance of an outgoing friendly guy, but his character underneath has always been suspect. No one with a gambling addiction like his is to be revered.
Couldn't have happened to a better guy than Mister LIV.
Aw I'm sorry you're so bitter
@@Olorin884 I just don't like Phil. It's still a free country isn't it?
@@jwp2166when did he say it’s not a free county or that u couldn’t say that?😂ur strange
@@kylewade8704 About the same time I asked for your opinion.
@@jwp2166well you asked for the other guys 😂 it’s still a free country right? 😅
This is always fun to watch especially after LIV.
This would have been 3 majors in a row for Phil Mickelson
How?
@@ohmyfungus5810 fym how? 05 PGA, 06 Masters, 06 US open
@@WindyCityWarden Jesus bro I was just asking lol
@@ohmyfungus5810 hahaha iss all love
@@WindyCityWarden I get how my comment sounded a bit aggressive reading it back lmao
You MUST understand what the U.S. Open truly means. Your biggest opponent is the golf course, all others are secondary. That's why these courses are chosen: to kick your ass!
It's a humbling sport
Phil the Thrill lol
3:58. That's insane lol. Who could make that shot?
Tiger.
You. Love. To. See. It.
Phil was being Phil. Trying to make 4 to win the championship. He still showed great class in defeat which is admirable
7:45 “…going to the ceremony for second place.” He most certainly did not. He sat in the scorer’s tent, and “respectfully declined” to be interviewed. Watch the telecast.
Next week I am going to get a membership at Winged Foot
Lol, me too
@@johnpearson7583 Great! See you at the clubhouse lounge. I'll be wearing camo cargo shorts and a white Red Bull tank top
People forget that Monty was in the middle of the fairway and doubled the hole to miss the playoff, too. Phil did not lose it as much as Monty did.
Losing is losing. Mickelson lost it just as much as Monty. They both blew it.
One of the best wedge players ever, getting out of trouble and then sticking a wedge by the pin was where he should have relied...why o why woild he try that shot
The tent actually screwed Mickelson, bounced right into tree trouble. That tent wasn’t there in the previous U.S. Open at Congressional.
This couldn't have happened to a more DESERVING guy. When the pressure was on, this guy was an absolute trainwreck.
This is absolutely amazing to watch. Love it.
For real? He won 57 worldwide events including 6 Majors. You don’t do that by being a train wreck when the pressure is on. Yes, he threw away at least 2 U.S. Opens, but that comes with the territory of his playing style. Only because the majority of best playing days paralleled Tiger Woods is not considered an even greater golfer than he already is. Name one golfer in the last 40 years not named Tiger Woods that is more accomplished than Phil Mickelson.
@@aeromedical6776Nicklaus and Palmer.
@@ConnorMiller417he said last 40 years not last70 bozo 😂
@@TheRockisaBondMovie Nicklaus and Palmer won 40 years ago bozo! Do your research!
@@ConnorMiller417 Nicklaus had two PGA Tour wins in the last 40 years, Palmer zero.
Norman and Mickelson. Two biggest chokers in the game.
Phil has 57 career wins, 6 of them are majors. If that's considered choking then I guess everyone else should just give up
Won a major at nearly 51 years old bud, your definition of choking is flawed
So sad to see the Shark at Augusta
@@Narbical97 never won a U.S. Open because he choked them all away.
Perhaps the only competition in which I primarily remember who lost it, not who won it. Ogilvy backed into that victory.
As bad as this is, what happened to Monty about 15 minutes earlier might be worse. He is DEAD CENTER of the fairway on 18 at +4. From there, he has an interminable wait for Vijay Singh and he second-guesses his club selection, hits his 2nd shot to the worst possible place and makes a 6, which costs him one of his best chances to win a major. You have to think Monty reflects on the 18th at Winged Foot just as much as Mickelson does.
Phil has never been known for his brains!!!
Yes a punch out into the fairway would have been the play here but that's just not Phil Mickelson. I think if he had a do over he'd play it the same way.
Monty deserved this win
He's like the scarecrow. If I ONLY HAD A BRAIN!
Mickelson and Norman two of the biggest chokers in the game. Then they turned on the tour that made them to accept Saudi blood money. Disgusting.
Mito Pereira just did the exact same thing at the PGA.
Nowhere near as bad, but he indeed has his legacy in his hands. Mito had to avoid the creek to the right. Almost makes you think that he joined LIV so that he can put that out of his memory easier.
It seems like this loss at Winged Foot got into Phil's head and stayed for future US Opens. Still holding out hope he can get the grand slam, but the long game from players like DeChambeau, D Johnson, Wolff are closing the door.
That’s true though I remember vintage Phil, he always went for it .. didn’t matter if he only had a small opening the size of a hula hoop, he was going for it . Super entertaining to watch . Support Phil ! 💪 💯
Best video on YT!
Well he didn't take it to seriously. He still remained a great player.
G'day Mate
I've never known why he chose to hit a driver when his driving game was terrible that day. He should have hit a 3 wood or a long iron. My guess is that he wanted to bomb a huge drive and give himself a little wedge to the green, where he would have won it for sure.
@@qwaszx2 I remember Colin Montgomery choked on the same hole earlier in the round with a double bogey. He should have won it too if not Mickelson. He hit a 3 wood off the tee. He hit a perfect shot right in the middle of the fairway, which left him between a six and seven iron to the green. He went with the seven and came up short in the rough. He had trouble getting out of it and ended up with a double bogey just like Mickelson. A bogey would have gotten him into a playoff. And Jim Furyk missed a three foot putt that would also have gotten him into a playoff. So Mickelson wasn't the only one who blew it that day. It was a brutal hole.
Supposedly, his next longest club in his bag was a 4 wood, and that wasn’t going to get the job done.
Stewart and Toms both laid up and won majors vs Phil. Same groupings too. He obviously didn't take notes
Phil was 5 shots better than field, tee to green, at ridiculous Shinnecock set-up but Goodsen made every putt he looked at down the stretch-----that was Phil's best shot at OPEN
Monty has an easier chance at par but under clubbed his second shot
Mickleson played it like an amateur, Ogilvy played it like a US Open champion. Ogilvy pars the last 4 holes including driving the 18th fairway - into a divot. He escapes out short of the green, plays an excellent high pitch then drains the 10 footer.
Where’s Jeff now?
Under your bed ?
I’m sure he’s deviated at having won a major…
Who is Jeff?
Geoff Ogilvy won the 2006 United States Open Championship.
@@christopherharvie8716 deviated?
The real heartbreak was Colin Montgomery not winning after a poor second shot.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
Take a drink everytime he says "New York loves Phil."
What will be will be , fair play all round 👍
I love the people disparaging Phil. "Second best"....."He ain't no Tiger". Meanwhile Phil is in the best shape of his life while Tiger is having his 40th surgery and probably in rehab every other month to get off the pills, not to mention the car accidents, you name it. Shit, no one gets as pumped for Tiger as me. We were born 6 days apart and my nickname by my grandfather was, in fact, Tiger. I was made fun of by my family because of that. No one had even heard of Tiger outside of the golfing world and mostly in California. I'm talking 80's timeline.
But to say Phil is some kind of second-class golfer is a joke. Phil might win the Masters well into his 50's. Tiger was the best in his prime at 25-35, but Phil is one of those guys that ages like fine wine. We don't realize yet how lucky we have been to see the great players of the 90's and 00's. Before club and ball technology made good players great. Now it is a strength and mental challenge.
I hope Phil wins the US Open here in a couple of weeks. It'll be vindication from the multitude of times he came up a shot short. I was happy that Payne won in '99 after about 6 months later, but it's about time for Phil to cash one of those rain checks.
Who is killing Phil here? He's a great player. I don't get it. I hear this a lot. I don't understand.
What is ridiculous is that Ogilvy would have not survived a 18 holes playoffs against Phil. He was such a real idiot not going for the boguey and force it.
This was so hard to watch!
was there that day and i can honestly say, that was the hottest day I've ever experienced.
pictures or it didn't happen
Man that was hard to watch
No other golfer has fallen from grace like Phil... he has destroyed his legacy over the last couple of years.
you're a clown for that
Mickelson is the GREATEST choker of all time!!! Second greatest is Greg Norman. Honorable Mention: Rory McElroy.
His Philness? When when will you all stop sucking up to this guy?
Don't you just loooove Karma!!!!!!!!!
Terrible things sometimes happens to terrible people :)
This is reminiscent of Van de Velde. Not as bad, but again, a complete mental breakdown.
It's probably worse than Van Velde because Phil is a far more accomplished player. He made three bad swings in a row. Should have hit a long iron off the tee and make no worse than five..What is inexcusable is that he'd already won two majors...
At that point I believe he had won 3. Masters twice and the PGA.
Disagree.
You correctly state that he is an accomplished Player, he is also an accomplished 'get out of trouble Player'.
He is renowned for his ability to craft the exact type of shot he was attempting, so why shouldn't he play to his strengths?
He's regularly in that position, due to his sloppy driving.
The shot in question, a big fade with a 3 iron, is really not that difficult for a Touring Pro, he just didn't catch it right, obviously.
He would have correctly surmised that even if the sliced 3 iron didn't quite make the green, he would have had a chip, one of his strengths, and a putt to win.
This would have been a similar scenario to the punch it back on to the fairway option, which he must have considered.
I think that you are being a little unfair, and harsh, to call it 'inexcusable' as the strategy seemed to be correct.
I don't think he made 3 bad swings, just 1, the Drive, the other 2, trying to work the ball out of a not ideal lie, always were risky.
Van De Velde's was the worst I think, because Van De Velde had already recieving a gift from the golfing Gods when he hit a wayward drive on 18. It somehow avoided the burn. Not content with being saved from a lifetime of regret, Van De Velde tempted fate yet again. It amused me when people suggest that Van De Velde may have been unlucky on his second shot, as if rattling a ball into the grandstand wouldn't bring disaster into play. Suggestions that Van De Velde's second shot was unlucky because it hit a one inch point and backed into the burn is really misunderstanding the situation.
@@FilmProtocol Right, he had won the Masters in both '04 and '06 at this point.
knowing what we do about phil, he owed somebody a lot of money. and that somebody probably made a lot of money on that 18th "disaster".
Like Van de Velde, something built for the spectators cost them both their Opens.
Not so...
Hit the fairway and they have no problem.
Phil coulda hit a three wood off the tee, Van de velde.. OH my. Just got nerves to him.
At least Phil's wife wasn't there laughing at him in front of the cameras while the implosion happened.
Van de Velde was even dumber than Mickelson. He could have hit three wedges and won.
4 days. 72 holes 🕳.
heartbreaking is going to LIV
Does phil lose his world ranking when he joina saudi league ?
These guys are obviously fan boys of Phil and couldn't bring themselves to state the obvious, that Mickelson had a brain explosion. To suggest by Mickelson showing up to the presentation was some heroic gesture was laughable. Of course he is obligated to be there!
The real tragedy is that Ford golf shirt.
Three years ago Phil was this generations Arnold Palmer. Now he’s this generations Benedict Arnold. He was bought with 30 pieces of silver.
Lord, take the amount of money that you’ve made in your career, whatever it is that you do. Now double it and I’ll tell you that we’ll pay you that amount just to come to our company and then you earn more the better you do. Btw, instead of working a 4 day a week schedule, it’s down to three days. You’re saying no? Please.
@@walterheisenberg251 I’d that’s all that’s important to you, that’s right, take the money and run. And there’s a reason no one watches LIV and PGA ratings are down precipitously. He was golf ambassador. He had a responsibility to the game, like the greats before him. And he blew it up.
The hole was 450yd back then. Three wood off the tee short of the bunker would have left him probably 8 iron. Not rocket science.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
Two guys that try so hard to likable but fail worse than Phil on the 72nd hole at Winged Foot.
The winners take was $1.2 for winning the 2006 US Open. If you watch closely Mickelson goes into porta potty and live bets against himself after 17. He won $1.5 large on bet plus the 2nd place pot, more than doubling his take if he had won. The LIV guys know where it’s at ….
No that never happened
@@Hillbillykarenabsolutely happened that’s our Philly 😊
Why we love Phil.
this guy has absolutely no course management skills
The "Let's go Phil" chants by the drunk New York cretins on 18 was so out of line and in appropriate that it is hard to put into words. Totally the wrong time for that, and it was disgusting.
Oh I see he had to hit it very high to get over the trees, which fried egg in the bunker,
then “rough chip”….Too bad.
He should have just cut his losses after the drive and just played for the playoff
Man this guy talking in the beginning gargles with cat litter.
What a horrendous voice.
Considering the rotten luck Greg Norman experienced in majors in The U.S. Australian golf was due some luck going our way…
There was a kid who asked Phil for an autograph when he was close to his ball after his drive (could have been after the second shot). The Kids' father yanked him out of the way and said...no (in a nice enough manner to his kid). But the fans surrounding 18 when Phil is plugged in the bunker, having essentially blown the US Open, who kept screaming Let's go Phil nonstop should have been escorted off the property (and it was most of the people).
I fist pump when I get double bogey
Bullshit
The lady doth protest too much in these comments. Phil's EXACT same aggressiveness/stupidity/temerity whatever you want to call it, win him his third Masters from the pine straws at 13th's second shot. That's who he is, and if he's not that, he's a gambler. As we all know, he's not a good one consistently. That's his whole freakin' life right there. At least he's living it on his terms, and BTW, I hate LIV.
Remember it very well, Montgomery made a complete twat of himself that was a great watch, and then big Phil absolutely topped it a fantastic melt down on 18 hilarious 😂😂😂
What's a twat ?
Phil had 250k on Ogilvie at 25-1. True story.
Not surprising. Maybe he had Bones double that one down for him in the 18th tee. Makes Pete Rose look like a poker. Bones is gustcas much a grifter as Mickelson.
Phils changed
No more manboobs. Nobody talks about it but he must have had breast reduction surgery, because he was known for the boobies.
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Couldn't happened to a better guy. The ol gagging by humpty dumpty
Exhibit A on why always "going for it" is for losers. Phil could've had a career grand slam. Instead, he went for it.
Super choke