3rd Round 2020 Ozark National Event Champions tour

and they are off-rather they have been off!! PHIL is minus -3 after 6 holes.

He had it back to a 4-shot lead but bogied the 6th hole and now just birdied the 8th par-3 to go back to a 4-shot lead through 8 (nice eagle on the drivable par-4?)

Nice words from Tiger "there's no reason that Phil can't win every Champions Tour event he plays in, he's long off the tee and if he takes advantage of that it's huge and his short game is impeccable" (or something like that).

Nice, birdied the par-5 9th hole for a 5-under on the front for a 5-shot lead going into the back.

Nice victory for Phil on an unfamiliar course. I was impressed with all the midrange putts he made. Any confidence boost he can get is helpful no matter where it is.

Great win for Phil, and for his confidence. Announcers... Watkins?.... was all praise for Phil how he had not seen him playing this well in a long while, how long he was, that his irons were spot on, and his putting stroke looks very comfortable. I think Phil should play this intertwined with PGA Tour, like a confidence boost and back into the fire.

I would love to play that course and the other one where the Champions Tour play, I think it was an all par-3 course? Or was it this one where they once had a large cave-in next to the practice green. I know they are pricey.

j58golf wrote:Nice victory for Phil on an unfamiliar course. I was impressed with all the midrange putts he made. Any confidence boost he can get is helpful no matter where it is.

A win is a win!!!

Tommorrow is my wife's birthday--She and Bernard Langer both turn 60 on Thursday!!!

Happy 60th to your wife!

Thanks!!!

Love this writeup:

The Phil Mickelson Show: Lefty adds gravitas to otherwise sleepy Champions Tour event

They’ve come before him.

Vijay Singh and John Daly.

Davis Love III and Steve Stricker.

Ernie Els and Jim Furyk.

But none of those proud champions sauntered onto the range – aviators on, chomping gum – with a swing coach, Trackman and personalized Yeti full of specially brewed coffee (available soon!). This is the Phil Mickelson Show, and this week, for the first time, he brought his endlessly entertaining brand of golf to the PGA Tour Champions. A late addition to the field after getting bounced from the FedExCup playoffs, in a Monday-Wednesday primetime coverage window with no competition, Mickelson instantly added gravitas to an otherwise sleepy event in the Ozarks.

That Mickelson played exceptionally well for three rounds was an added bonus, giving the senior tour some needed vitality. He wasted little time etching his name in the record books. He fired the lowest debut round in tour history (61). Through two rounds he sat one shot off the 36-hole scoring record. He won by four shots and matched the lowest 54-hole total in tour history (191).

Speaking of his longtime rival, Tiger Woods said there’s “no reason” why Mickelson shouldn’t win each and every time he tees it up on the over-50 circuit. And he had a point. A 44-time Tour winner, Mickelson finished second last month in a World Golf Championships event against the best players on the planet. Since slimming down and adding speed, he is still capable of popping 325-yard drives, which makes him plenty long on the regular Tour but overwhelmingly long against guys who are smoothing it out there, on average, 277 yards. Sure enough, in his debut, Mickelson swung for the fences on Ozarks National’s generous fairways, sparking his final-round 66 by driving the green on the fifth hole and making eagle. For the week he led the field in driving distance (325 yards). But more than his powerful blasts, he took advantage of his still-world-class wedge game and, thanks to his recent work with putting guru Derek Uyeda, filled it up with 24 birdies and an eagle against just four bogeys.

“All it does is help us,” Billy Andrade said of Mickelson’s debut. “It improves our brand, improves our quality. I’m so excited. I think everybody is.” [Except for maybe Tim Petrovic]