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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP)—Phil Mickelson gave his adoring fans a shot to remember Saturday in the U.S. Open—a remarkable hybrid that none of the Bethpage Black regulars would even think to try, let alone have the club to play it.
From 164 yards in rough left of the 15th fairway, he opened the face of the hybrid as if playing a wedge and launched a high shot—the crowd cheering as the ball took flight, trying to help it to the elevated green—that stopped 25 feet from the hole.
“This is a special club I actually made, taking the back part of the hybrid out so that I can open it way up and get through that thick rough,” Mickelson said.
He was 1 under—seven strokes behind leader Ricky Barnes—after rounds of 69 and 70 and a nifty par save on the first hole in third round before rain stopped play.
From 164 yards in rough left of the 15th fairway, he opened the face of the hybrid as if playing a wedge and launched a high shot—the crowd cheering as the ball took flight, trying to help it to the elevated green—that stopped 25 feet from the hole.
“This is a special club I actually made, taking the back part of the hybrid out so that I can open it way up and get through that thick rough,” Mickelson said.
He was 1 under—seven strokes behind leader Ricky Barnes—after rounds of 69 and 70 and a nifty par save on the first hole in third round before rain stopped play.