This is the thread where we congratulate Phil Mickleson

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Because it's about time.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm too busy laughing at Justin Rose, but I'm congratulating him in spirit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay Phil!! What a final putt, eh? That was a great moment. I actually cried a little for him.

I never really warmed to him in the past, but at this point it was pretty hard not to root for him. Although I was starting to get excited at the prospect of a playoff...

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps we should spell his name correctly first?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazing how the back nine at Augusta today/tonight provided a condensed highlights reel in real time - consecutive holes-in-one, eagle-twos, Els' deadweight hands-of-silk pitch from down the bank at 14, finally Phil's round-the-cup clincher.

Poor Peter Alliss didn't seem to realise he'd won with that.

The Phil Harmonic, indeed.

perhaps we should spell his name correctly first?

No, it's nicer to congratulate him, then correct the spelling.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool, I didn't miss the jacket presentation (I switched over to hockey for a few minutes there).

Yeah, how about the two hole-in-ones? Insane.

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So, who's left as the best current player not to have a major title? Brits would be inclined to say Colin Montgomerie but I'm sure there are half a dozen US players I can't think of right now with a better claim than him.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sergio still hasn't got one. But he's so young.

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to mention Garcia but feared that might invite even greater snorts of derision from ILX's Secret USPGA Mafia than mentioning Grumpy Col.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

For me that sounded the death knell for the unctuous Peter Allis, who has been appalling for a long time. Mickelson wins and Allis thinks it's a play off. What bigger mistake could the man make; and it's not even a fast sport.

It reminds me of David Coleman getting the first, second, and third wrong in the Sydney women's triathlon, a seemingly impossible thing to do since they'd been strung out for a long time. After the Olympics, he was quietly put out to grass. After Allis goes, I'd like to see the end of the dreadful Richard Pitman, too. These dreary establishment figures have had their day.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

''Poor Peter Alliss didn't seem to realise he'd won with that.''

He has to be sacked, easily the worst commentator ever. i watch golf with the sound turned down but I turned it up in the excitement, and what a mistake that was.

Great to see Phil finally getting his hands on it. sergio's time will come.

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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's still montgomerie for me. I'm not sure I like him though.

I quite sad I missed this. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf, julio you're weird! alliss is a god.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cozen otm. In fact I'm almost certain that Peter Alliss is the greatest commentator, in any sport, of all time.

Mike is right about the highlights reel. I could hardly believe my eyes and ears, the way the continuous streams and waves of cheers rung out from all corners of the course.

Montgomerie is probably no longer the current greatest never to have blah blah, but historically he may go down as such.

Mickelson. Phil.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

gods are killed on ilx, so are kittens.

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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You're getting weirder.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I told him, he was weird!

well done, phil.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

peter alliss, skeptical about the weatherman's report: "I think he's talking out of his isobarse."

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved his description of Mickelson's 'agricultural walk', too. And the old vicar he used to play with.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Bah. I quit caring when John Daly didn't make the cut.

http://www.arkansas.com/images/photos/pt02_john_daily.jpg

PM seems so dull, so... golf-y. Els at least looks kinda weird and has a pleasant, compact last name. Daly though is a badass.

― adam (adam), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I like els more as a player, seems to be more relaxed around the greens but I liked how Phil was pushed to make that thrilling put on the last.

Daly's peak years were in mid 90s, after he won the open it was a relief that he got it together for one year but consistency was never a big thing with him.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I will always associate Daly with the anticlimax of his playoff victory at the '94 (British) Open - after the hysteria of Rocca's impossible chip (following his choke of an approach) to force the extra holes.

I can't believe I remember so much golf.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I will always associate daly with his song 'all my exes wear rolexes'.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Mickelson's final round was one of the most remarkable I have ever witnessed - the way he was set up as favourite, but with all constantly whispering he's a choker - the way he fell behind and made an almost imperceptible descision to simple attack at all costs - his amazing, wide-eyed, open mouthed laughter which seemed to have fixed on his mug sometime through the back nine, as if the wind had changed - that putt at, 16?, so aggressive it seemed it would blow the hole-lip away - the final putt, of course - "daddy won! can you believe it?"

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Alliss is not to be tampered with, even if he does say "now you can have that new kitchen love" when the wife is on camera at at least one major a year.

Yes Mickelson was astoundingly happy and relaxed looking on the back nine wasn't he? He is an astonishing putter and last night he managed to display that at the right time.

Couldn't help but be pleased for Harrington after his hole in one too!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I just couldn't believe the regulation-length shorts ringing the greens. I stopped watching the golf and concentrated on the unbelievable uniformity of those shorts.

As for Peter Aliss, he's as smug and no-fool-like-an-old-fool as Ted Lowe was before they put him out to grass. Aliss' commentary last night consisted of saying Hello in a silly voice when a putt went in.

Part of me wanted Mickelson to lose, until I realised that the alternative was that rat-faced Els.

― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Aliss = the DLT of sport

― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dacon Lettuce and Tomato?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

why is Monty the most hated man on the PGA tour? What is exactly the source?

― don carville weiner, Monday, 12 April 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

anne fine

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, I like your DLT, but I was thinking of Dave Lee Travis, hoary hairy man of the 70s

― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Monty's bad temper surely?

I was at the Irish Open one year and as Monte came to the Tee with (I think) Garcia and someone else, the steward allowed a woman to go through the rope JUST after he'd closed it, about 200 yards down the fairway.

So Monte just screams "WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU BLOODY IDIOT, FOR CHRISTS SAKE GET OFF THE BLOODY COURSE"

It was insane! The other players were laughing at him, I mean nobody had even teed up yet so it wasn't as if the woman was causing a great deal of harm. If that's the mental state he goes around courses in it's no wonder he never wins anything anymore.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

mickelson looks like an in-bred british count or something. the coolest golf player by far is this guy:
http://www.powerforliving.com/bll.jpg
he is keepin' it real!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Bernhard Langer only have one ball?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree w/ Julio abt Allis - a saloon-bar reactionary who should've been pensioned off years ago (Allis, that is, not Julio) - I think we've had this argt before, tho'...

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I fear Bernie is talking about Jebus.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe you remember, so much.

― the philfox, Monday, 12 April 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah we definitely had an argument about Allis before.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no argument.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike, you fear correctly.

The best round of golf I had ever seen was Greg Norman's Sandwich Sunday 1n 1993. Until the erstwhile Unlucky Phil got going this morning (Aus time).

If PM hadn't won today, the comparisons with the aforementioned Mr Norman (who has also played some of the WORST major golf I have ever witnessed) would have put on too much cred to stop.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What a great last round! I thought ol Vijay had a chance until he left it in the bunker and then later put it in the water on that par five.

Phil's back nine was a thing of beauty.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 12 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I always hear his name as Phil Nippleson. I probably shouldn't admit that.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Anybody watching this? Will we have to congratulate him again? This is exciting stuff!!

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah shit, he blew it on 17. Fuck, I probably jinxed him by reviving this.

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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