Phil Admits: It Really Wasn't About Saving Strokes
/In Chicago to help KPMG kick off the Women's PGA Championship, Randall Mell reports that Phil Mickelson had a fun time promoting junior golf and took time to answer a few questions from Golf Central's Todd Lewis.
Regarding this 13th hole meltdown at Shinnecock Hills:
“I certainly wasn’t thinking of that at the time, but I have pretty thick skin,” Mickelson said. “I will probably hear about this for some time.
“Fortunately, I can take it and hopefully at some point we will be able to laugh about it.”
Mickelson intimated his intentionally hitting a moving ball wasn’t really about saving strokes.
“At the time, I didn’t really care about the stroke difference,” he said.
The full interview: