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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye
I hear what people are saying about how Phil shouldn't have done what he did but I'm sure Phil knew exactly what he was doing. If you watched the Open you could see how many players missed 2 to 5 ft. puts either came up short or if they hit their 3 ft. putt & missed it rolled 10 ft. past or off the green. This wasn't just Mickelson it was most of the players. Besides I'm sure Phil wasn't going to win it or be in the top 10 finishers at 13 or 14 over at that time. I'm really surprise more people that made comments here didn't say, I wonder how many players will want to come back to this course & play. The course was terrible! I'm glad to see Phil showing his frustration in how bad this course was! Just my opinion, I'm just an amateur just like most of us that are making my opinions about Phil. Just to bad Phil didn't play better & did what he did though!
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I watched the Open every day and I didn't see any missed three footers rolling ten feet by or off the green. Do you have specific examples of this? I'm sure that it could happen on a US Open golf course, but that's part of solving the problem. Hitting your ball on the green is not good enough. It has to be in a specific location on the green. Or more importantly, it can't be in certain specific locations. It's the same at The Masters. if you get your ball above the hole on some holes, you either have to hole it or you're going to have a long comeback putt.
This is major championship golf. Brooks Koepka won by shooting one over. Dustin Johnson could have won, but he putted horribly. He hit the ball on the green and in the right spot for the most part, but couldn't find the line. Had he putted just decently, (and that's 30 putts at the tour level) he would have won easily. Tommy Fleetwood shot 63 so how can anyone say that the golf course was unfair or too difficult. It's supposed to be extremely difficult.