PHIL MICKELSON BOWS OUT WITH AN
11 AT PEBBLE BEACH´S 14TH





World No 2 Phil Mickelson ran up an 11 at one hole and, not surprisingly, failed to make the halfway cut in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in California.
The left hander had been only five shots off the lead.
Then came an 11 on one hole, a tee shot into the Pacific Ocean on another, and a surprisingly early departure home.
"It's not fun when it goes this way," he said.
Mickelson, trying to become the first player since 1990 to win back-to-back titles at Pebble Beach, instead missed the cut for only the third time in his career with a 78 that wasn't nearly as bad as it looked on paper.
He putted for birdie 16 times and made only one of them, an 18-inch putt on the fourth.
His tournament ended on the par-5 14th with an aggressive play, a couple of bad swings, a bad break and a very big number.
Mickelson tried to cut the corner on the 585-yard 14th by playing right of the bunker at the dogleg. From a decent lie in the rough, he decided to hit a hybrid to just short of the green, which would leave him a pitch shot with his 64-degree wedge.
But the hybrid didn't work out -- twice.
"It ended up shooting right on me and went out of bounds," Mickelson said. "And then I did it again."
He finally opted to hit 5-iron to the fairway for his sixth shot, then his wedge spun off the green, down the slope and into a muddy, sloppy lie under a tree. His eighth shot made it halfway up the hill, he chipped that on to 15 feet and two-putted for an 11 which has to be the highest one-hole score of his pro golf career.