![]() ![]() However, Friday marked the 100th time Mickelson has made the cut in a major, and his 27th at the PGA Championship, which ties him with Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd for the most in tournament history. Through two rounds, he had hit a mere 8 of 28 fairways through 36 holes, which tied for 133rd in the field. He was at 3-over in the first round at the PGA Championship and things didn’t get much better. Mickelson so far hasn’t played up to his Masters standards where he tied for second in April. I guess in January they changed that to where you just only get line-of-sight.” “I didn’t know that they changed the rule this year, whereby you normally could take the point in line and then you have that two-club-length semicircle. “I ended up hitting it in the hazard and took line-of-sight and came back,” Mickelson continued. Mickelson was already 5-over after 36 holes, right on the cut line. Phil Mickelson struggles but makes cut: ‘I played terrible’ “The guy came over and saved me a penalty because I had dropped it in the ruling under last year and didn’t realize it had been changed, and he came and saved me a stroke, so I was very appreciative,” Mickelson said after his round. Phil Mickelson celebrates after a birdie on the fifth hole during the second round of the PGA Championship. The second rules official agreed with the first and Mickelson thanked the first for preventing him from making a mistake. Subsequently, he planned to give himself two club lengths of relief and when asking playing partner Rickie Fowler how it looked, Fowler gave a thumbs up that he was in the clear.Ī rules official disagreed, making his way over to Mickelson to tell him that it was an incorrect drop and he would have resulted in a 1-stroke penalty if he played his ball from the wrong position.Īt first, he argued against the rules official and asked for a second opinion. On the sixth hole, Mickelson, 52, hit his tee shot into the water along the right side of the fairway and afterwards he dropped a ball where he believed the original shot had entered the water. Phil Mickelson’s PGA Championship was saved by a rules official during the second round at Oak Hill Country Club on Friday. ![]() PGA Championship final round ratings sink to 15-year low What I actually told Brooks Koepka during awkward-looking moment: PGA CEO Michael Block’s cocky Rory McIlroy boast may have gone too far "The point is the warnings should be proportionate and, in this case, since you're talking about wine, saying that drinking alcohol on a bottle of wine causes liver disease is totally disproportionate." (Read more Ireland stories.Paige Spiranac backs golf darling after Cinderella story took sad turn "There is nothing wrong with the warnings," said Ruggero Corrias. The Italian ambassador to Ireland, for one, called the rules too draconian, reports the BBC. "I look forward to other countries following our example." The labels also will address the dangers to pregnant women, and they must include calorie counts as well.Īlcohol producers throughout the European Union objected to the new rules unsuccessfully, and nine EU member nations also raised formal objections, per Politico. "I welcome that we are the first country in the world to take this step and introduce comprehensive health labelling of alcohol products," said health minister Stephen Donnelly. But Ireland is boasting that its rules will be the strictest of any nation. Other nations requires warning labels to a certain extent-the US, for example, mandates them on beverages over 0.5% alcohol by volume, notes NPR. ![]()
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