Runner-up a record six times in his national championship, Mickelson will turn 47 during next year’s U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin and history suggests he is on the verge of battling a lost cause. “I felt as uncomfortable over the golf ball as I have in a while”, said the former Open champion, who lost a play-off at St Andrews previous year.
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Lowry, looking to give Irish golf a 10th major in the last 10 years, was at 5-under par with four holes to play in the third round when it was too dark to continue.
Andrew Landry watches his tee shot on the fifth hole during the rain delayed second round of the U.S …
Moments later, world number one Jason Day, who started the third round on the 10th hole, coaxes in a slippery 12-footer to eagle the par-five fourth and move within four strokes of the lead. He began dropping shots and was three behind, along with Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia.
The combination of a session on the range with coach Michael Bannon and a more aggressive approach then paid off for McIlroy on day three as he birdied the 10th, 12th, 14th and 16th and then drove the green on the short par-four 17th, only to three-putt for par from 80 feet. Unfortunately he did not and then missed his bogey putt and finished with a double-bogey.
The second round of the U.S. Open finally ends, and so do the chances of some big players.
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However, bogeys on the 18th and first dropped him back to level par but birdies on the second and sixth kept him in the hunt for his first major.
The World No 3 misses the first cut in a major tournament for the first time since 2013 with that last occurring at The Open. He ended up hitting his tee shot into a front left bunker and settling for par.
Henrik Stenson’s 2016 US Open came to a premature close on Saturday as the Swede withdrew before completing his second round. “At the end it was a very good day on a very hard course like this”.
Bourdy, ranked No. 126 in the world, was nonetheless beaming after the round despite the last three holes. Things only got worse for Landry at the 281-yard par-3 8th. “I believe that I will”, 46-year-old Mickelson said.
“Obviously, birdie, birdie to end my second round is a way to get my momentum going in the third round”.
Northern Irishman Shane Lowry holed an impressive par putt on nine (his final hole of the second round) to get into the clubhouse at 2 under, as well. That’s the best of the tournament so far.
So that’s it. Either we’re bucking 20-year history and someone from outside the top seven (like Adam Scott or Louis Oosthuizen at T7) will win it, or we will get a no-name victor like Bourdy, Piercy or Daniel Summerhays.
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All it took was three holes for Andrew Landry to tumble down the leaderboard Saturday at the U.S. Open.
