Phil Mickelson has a chance to do something Sunday that he hasn’t done in 16 years.
After carding his second straight bogey-free round, a 2-under 70 Saturday at the Safeway Open, Mickelson has now gone 42 consecutive holes without making a bogey or worse. According to the PGA Tour, Mickelson’s career-best bogey-free streak during the ShotLink era is 49 holes, which came at the 2004 Open Championship.
So, with the U.S. Open on the horizon, surely Mickelson is feeling good about his game, right? Actually, it’s quite the opposite.
“This is the worst I've played in the last three months,” Mickelson said Saturday afternoon at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California.