2013 Masters

[h=3]Phil Mickelson[/h]
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA

Q. The back nine didn't go the way you wanted. What would you attribute that to?
PHIL MICKELSON: It is a beautiful day here, and you cannot get a more majestic day here at the Masters. I just played terrible. There's no way around it. I'm just not hitting very good golf shots, missing it in bad spots and not really knowing which side I'm going to miss it on. So my play has been beyond terrible, and that's certainly disappointing. But where else would you rather be than Augusta National with this kind of weather on a weekend? It's just spectacular, and certainly I wish I played better, but it sure is fun being here.

Q. Was there one thing that led to you playing, in your words, terrible?
PHIL MICKELSON: I don't know what's going on, but I've been struggling with my ball‑striking. The putter actually feels good even though I missed a bunch. It doesn't feel good. The ball‑striking, I just don't know where it's going to go. But again, I'm having fun here, but it's disappointing. This is the one event I look forward to more than anything, and it's just kind of heartbreaking to play the way I've been playing. Disappointed in myself.

Q. Specifically on 11 and 12, how frustrating were those two holes?
PHIL MICKELSON: Yeah, I'm 4‑over for the tournament, so it's not like I'm right in the thick of it and had a heartbreaking shot that went in the water and cost me the tournament. I just hit a couple of terrible shots.
But that's kind of the way it is out here. What I love about Augusta National is when you play well you can score really well, like Nick Watney did the back nine, shot a bunch under par, and if you play the way I did you shoot quite a few over. That really gives the players who are playing well a chance to separate themselves and identifies the best player.

Q. Looking ahead there's a possibility that you could be paired with Guan, the 14 year old, tomorrow.
PHIL MICKELSON: Yeah, that would be cool. I saw him earlier here last week as we were getting ready for the tournament. What a classy person he is. He's got a great game. I hope that happens. That would be cool. I wish we were a lot lower score, but hopefully we'll have a chance to do it.

Q. With the Tiger ruling and the viewer that called in, that rule that's put in to protect you guys to prevent callers from disqualifying people, knowing your knowledge of the situation, do you think Tiger should have played today?
PHIL MICKELSON: You know, I didn't get a chance to see what happened. I played so early this morning, I woke up, I didn't really watch or read anything, and somebody was saying something about a two‑shot penalty. I don't really‑‑ quite honestly I don't know what happened yet to even comment on it, and I'm sorry, I'm just unaware. I just got done with the round and haven't heard.

Q. Was that almost a strange situation to walk off the course with one score and come back with an extra two shots the next day?
PHIL MICKELSON: Honestly I don't even know what we're talking about to be honest. I just kind of got done playing and just kind of hearing. I don't know the details, so it's a little premature for me to say anything.

Q. The disappointment, for three months your focus pretty much is on this tournament‑‑
PHIL MICKELSON: Yeah.

Q. And you come here and you don't‑‑ you make some changes to your equipment and do all the other things that you think is going to work, and obviously after three rounds it hasn't come close to working. Your disappointment has to be a little more than what you're showing right now.
PHIL MICKELSON: Yeah, I am disappointed. If I look back on it, it's been my iron play that's been very poor, poor iron shots in the water, poor distance control, missing it in the wrong spots, that wedge yesterday on 9. I just had some poor iron play this week, and unfortunately that's kind of been the case this year for me with the exception of Phoenix. I just have not hit my irons the way I've been hitting them the last few years.
 
crawdads said:
If Jason Day can hold on this will be a win win for everyone. His wife is up there with Webb's.
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lol, I was thinking that yesterday. Hoped he would be in the final group so we could get some shots of her on camera. She's fine.
 
Good luck on rory over phil. Hard for me to pull the trigger on it but makes sense
 
Alan Tongue said:
No, he's unlucky.

Every Tiger shot gets broadcast, so if this happens to him it will be picked up. If this was 95% of the other players in the tournament that get a handful of shots shown then this wouldn't be an issue because the whole series of events wouldn't have been shown. It means that decisions based on TV broadcasts are not a level playing field

He is also judged on this because he is Tiger Woods, a polarising figure. If this happened to marc Leishman most peoples opinion would change.

Finally, nobody has mentioned that a result could be changed because a viewer called in and pointed out what happened. That is the biggest issue here. So, every other sport we accept the ruling on the field but not in golf? What happens next, the Superbowl gets changed after full time because a viewer calls in and says the refs got a call wrong? The narcy viwers need to shut the fuck up and get a life
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Viewers have been calling in for several yrs now so that is nothing new, but Tiger is the exception any other player would have been DQed. IMO Tiger would have gained a great deal of praise had he DQed himself..imo that is what he should have done...he clearly broke a rule and admitted it was to get a better drop. The rules comm screwed up big time & to save their asses they let him play on with a penalty....they were afraid Tiger would take his game to Europe & the PGA would lose big $$$$ . Any other player would have been sent home. Tiger should have done the right thing & DQed himself
 
crawdads said:
Players keeping their own score is stupid to begin off with
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You know, this is a damn good point. Why do they need scorecards in today's day and age, anyway? My problem with the Tiger penalty is that THEY LET HIM SIGN HIS CARD AND TOLD HIM IT WAS ALL GOOD. To then penalize him the next morning after they'd already told him he was cool. That's like an ex post facto law, and that's not cool. They cleared him when he signed his card. The statute of limitations ends there.
 
I can see Bubba's presser now:

Q: Bubba, how did you record a 10 on the 12th?

A: I was able to curl in a 15 footer.
 
Unreal. Rose just hit it on the water on 12. Hes made a bogey and a double already there. Why are these fucking idiots coming up short.
 
Justin with about a 10 footer for a 7. Made 3,4,5,7 on 12. Impossible to cap. Bad event for me. Gonna be like up 20$ on the year after losing 250+ here. Such a roller coaster. Won Watson by 1. Lost the 3 ball on the last hole. Was fine with Bubba with room to spare until he makes a septuple bogey. Crazy week. One I will put in the past.

GL to everyone
 
and my Choi as Top Asian bet just crumbled too. Was in top 5 coming into yesterday at -3, finishes +5. Ishikawa shoots 68 today to finish +4.... very frustrating.
 
i'm feeling very fortunate to have bet against adam scott and sneds today. putting not going their way at all
 
don't know why i love pato but i do

guy just looks like he doesn't give a fuck and plays w/ice water in his veins
 
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