Billy Mayfair is the reason Tiger is 11-1, rather than unbeaten, in PGA Tour playoffs. And the 51-year-old is rather proud of it. What’s Tiger think about that 1998 anomaly that happened so near his hometown?
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — There were no fans cheering him on, but Phil Mickelson still felt inspired to turn to his brother and remark about how much fun he was having Saturday at the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Classic. “I was 1 over through 3 and on the fourth tee I said to Tim, ‘This is so much fun,’” Mickelson said. “I’m having so much fun because I can feel my game turn around, I’m starting to play well again, I’m starting to putt well and starting to drive the ball well and it just feels good and I’m having fun. I just think the results are going to start to slowly come back.” RELATED: Full leaderboard | Todd on top of the world in Memphis The slimmed-down Mickelson is in sixth place entering the final round at TPC Southwind. This is the highest on the leaderboard a player age 50 or over has been after 54 holes of a World Golf Championship since Miguel Angel Jimenez at the 2014 World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship. He shot 66 on Saturday and sits at 7-under 203, five shots behind leader Brendon Todd. Mickelson made seven birdies Saturday. “I’ve been driving the ball pretty well and been able to get aggressive with my irons,” he said. TPC Southwind is a perfect site for him to turn things around. He finished no worse than 12th here from 2013 to 2018, including two runners-up and a third-place finish. Mickelson, 50, has just one top-10 in 13 starts this season, a third-place finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February. His only other top-25 this season was a T24 at the Travelers Championship a month ago. He ranks 103rd in the FedExCup standings. Mickelson made the cut in his last three starts before arriving in Memphis. Next week, he returns to his home state for the PGA Championship, the first major in more than a year. “I’ve had a little bit more consistency the last few weeks and this has been a good week so far,” he said. “I’m hoping to continue to build on it. It’s been really fun for me to come out and play and start to play well.”
There is one notorious cheater on the PGA Tour, according to an anonymous Tour pro’s article in Golf Digest. In the wake of Lexi Thompson losing a major over a controversial penalty related to marking her ball on a green, and Phil Mickelson’s comments that some pros are “loose” with marking balls on the Tour, one Tour golfer has come forth with some striking comments on the subject.
SHANGHAI — U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka made birdie from a water hazard late in his round and opened with an 8-under 64 to build a one-shot lead in the World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions. Koepka already threw away one opportunity by three-putting from 4 feet on the third hole for bogey. Then, he hooked a 3-iron off the tee at the par-5 eighth and into a tiny stream. He removed his shoes and blasted it out of the water onto the fairway, ripped a 3-wood from 275 yards onto the green and made a 20-foot birdie putt. He had a one-shot lead over Gavin Green of Malaysia and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand. Patrick Reed was another shot behind with a 66. Dustin Johnson, former PGA TOUR Player of the Year, opened with a 68.
