The Golfing Polack

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Is Phil Done For The Year?

Is Phil Mickelson's golf game twelvemonth in the dumper? Possibly, given his recent degree of play. In last week's AT&T National (Tiger's inaugural event), Phil was awful and failed to do the cut. Neither his long game nor his short game was up to par. He stayed in the unsmooth much of the clip and could not do the cardinal puttings once he did do it on the greens.

The British Open at Carnoustie is on the horizon. Can Phil recoil and again go a military unit to be reckoned with?

Well it looks that the likelihood right now are not in Phil's favor. Basically, there are 3 grounds for this assessment.

First, Phil's injured carpus is still not 100%. Although, the carpus is in better status then a few hebdomads back it still do Phil some discomfort. This was evidenced by the faces he made after hitting certain shots during last week's tournament.

Second, Phi still have not recovered from his U.S. Open fiasco at Oakmont. His less than leading public presentation at the Open still vibrates in his thought and is most likely affecting his drama even if lone subconsciously.

Third, it looks that the competition have caught up with the Big Three: Tiger, Vijay and Phil. "No Name" and "Who's That" cats are beating all three in major competitions. The approaching British Open could be another tourney where a small known golf player emerges from nowhere and takes the award leaving Phil among other name golf players out in the cold.

So right now the mentality for Phil makes not look too promising for the British Open or any other major competition left on this year's golfing schedule. He is in a slack of kinds that is going to take some attempt to interrupt out of.

But conjecture what...Phil is just too good to compose off completely. His salvation and tax return to the top of the leader board is really only one or two good attack shots or puttings away. Remember, Phil is still the 2nd rank participant in the world, despite his recent awkward play. Along the manner he have already amassed over 4 million dollars in award money so far this year.

Phil can do a rejoinder and be the Phil of old on any given weekend. In fact, don't be surprised if Phil makes not interrupt out of his blue funk at the British Open. He's overdue.

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