Bones should be fired for not forcing Phil to chip out on 18, or insisting that he hit something other than the driver off the tee!
From the interview I understood they considering the 4-wood, but it would have left a very long approach. So they opted for the off-the-shelf day-in-day-out cut baby driver.
And could not believe the result. The shot was not just off the fairway. It was far left of the crowds. It hit the roof of a spectator tent and bounced back into the crowd. It was a bad, bad shot. Probably the worst he hit all week - by far.
But deciding to go for the green from that place - on a day when the swing is clearly off - seems like a bad idea.
For some reason his swing must have been terrible on that Sunday. Hitting 2/14 stinks. Especially when using irons on two tees. Of which at least one did not find the fairway.
Field average for fairways hit was 46,1% on Sunday.
On the other hand he hit 11/18 greens. 61% is clearly better than the average of 54,6%.
30 putts was also better than the average.
So what was the problem?
The double-bogey on 18.
Field average was 4.44 on Sunday. Phil lost 1,6 shot to the field on that hole.
The teeshot did not cost him the title, but the second shot cost him his only double-bogey of the tournament.
(Monty had two double-bogeys. The second one on the last hole after needing 4 shots to get from the deep rough within 10 yards from the flag and into the hole.)
Such a cruel day.
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When James Durham recorded 94 at the Old Course at St Andrews in 1767, he set a course record that lasted 86 years. Golf: A curious sport whose object is to put a very small ball in a very small hole with implements ill desiged for the purpose - Sir Winston Churchill
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