I probably didn’t deal with it internally as well as I could have or as well as I need to.
“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.
He hit a good drive and was in the first cut of rough, then tried to blast his 2-wood into a greenside bunker but pushed it into a bush.
But Mickelson’s only birdie of the round came at the 17th hole, where he knocked his approach to 6 feet.
“I was fighting hard throughout the round,” Mickelson said.