Phil Mickelson’s career trajectory is reflected by his patented game of rotation in the course. And the six -time sample skill to hit the heroic shots among the catastrophe was on the full screen Thursday in the Open Championship of 2025.
At the beginning RoyalMickelson held thousands of spectators on the edge of their seats while fighting for the open bullet. But the most similar to Phil’s performance came to the 3rd.
Phil fails to get out of the bunker, then the hole outside
Mickelson played in the fifth group in the opening round, Leaving at 2:19 am et/7: 19 am local time Alongside Daniel Van Tonder and Ryan Peake.
Although he has played some of his best golf since joining Liv this year, Mickelson was not on anyone’s radar as a potential contender in this open week. He changed that story quickly in round 1.
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After the first one in the opening hole, Mickelson Drenoi an eight-legged bird kick on par-5 2 to enter the early red numbers.
But the positive momentum was almost pulled into the next hole, the Par-3 short and 3rd.
Mickelson’s hit shot in the 167-Oborres hole turned out short, plunging into the upper part of a Greenside pot bunker. He reached the ball to find a scary fried lie. With a difficult attitude to navigate, Phil took a blow to his ball, but failed to get him out of the bunker in his first attempt.
Suddenly he seemed to give again the blow he won in 2, and then some. But Mickelson had other plans.
Facing a long blow to the hole and a gossip green, Mickelson hit a high, weak blow that descended about 15 meters from the hole, then rolled the left and rolled directly into the cup for an extraordinary overtaking 3.
The epic blow attracted a properly shocked reaction from the US TV cabin: “Are you kidding me?”
Look at the moment below.
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After his epic epic of the hole in 3, Mickelson remained in one under. He made pars in the next three holes, occasionally clashing to avoid falling from the rhythm.
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The 2013 open champion then benefited from the second PAR-5 in the course, the 7th, reaching two then twice for another bird 4.
His second day Birdie moved Mickelson to the early open lead to two under.
He was tied up for the superiority until he recorded his first noise of the day in the 11th 11th hole, moving it back to one under. However, at that point Mickelson was connected to the fifth and well to the striking distance.
If he is somewhat in charge this week, Mickelson’s second open title and the seventh large would be even more impossible than his sixth. In that major, 2021 PGA Championship on Kiawah IslandThe 50-year-old Mickelson then set the record for the oldest big champion in history.
Now 55 years old, his chances look even more impossible. He lost four open cuts from 2019-2023. He broke the belt last year at Royal Troon but could only manage T60.
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