Phil Mickelson figured before the start of Sunday’s final round in Memphis that if he couldn’t win the tournament, he desperately wanted to put up a really good round of golf.
He wanted it, needed it to take some momentum and memories of good golf shots to Chambers Bay, where he arrived Monday night for the 2015 U.S. Open.
“I was able to control the miss,” said Mickelson, who closed with a 65 Sunday at TPC Southwind and finished in a tie for third at the FedEx St. Jude. “I still feel like I left four of five shots out there,” Mickelson said Sunday night.
But his attention has already turned to Chambers Bay, where he has already spent extensive time working his way around and studying the links layout that was once an old sand and stone quarry. “It’s a special course,” Mickelson said. “There’s a lot of different ways to play it. If you play the highest percentage it’s not a hard golf course. But if you don’t know what that shot is, and you play the wrong shot, there’ s a lot of penalty out there.”
Mickelson will go out on Thursday at 10:33 a.m. (7:33 a.m. PDT) off the first tee with Bubba Watson and Angel Cabrera, a pairing of three Masters champions.
