He eventually asked that phone to be put on silent, and an officer on site was summoned to address the distraction.
He then recovered with a pin-seeking approach shot that ricocheted off the stick and into the thick rough greenside, exacerbating his misfortunes on a hole that presented its own non-golf challenges.
“It did it the next three or four shots thereafter, too, so it’s not like that’s the first time, it’s just that you had to ask three times,” Mickelson told ESPN of the noise disturbance.
Mickelson finished his first round with a 4-over 75, eight strokes off the leader in the clubhouse.
I probably didn’t deal with it internally as well as I could have or as well as I need to.