#Matthew Fitzpatrick used famed caddie’s help for Memorial to remember
“#Matthew Fitzpatrick used famed caddie’s help for Memorial to remember”
As good as Fitzpatrick’s week was, Jim “Bones’’ Mackay’s week might have been even better. Mackay, the caddie for Phil Mickelson for 25 years, worked the past two weeks as a replacement for Fitzpatrick’s regular caddie, Billy Foster, who opted to stay in England with his family as a COVID-19 precaution.
Fitzpatrick’s final-round, 4-under 68 was the low round of the day. He called having Mackay on the bag “brilliant,’’ adding, “I definitely learned a couple things off him and I’ll be picking his brain to see what I can improve on.’’
Mackay, who’s now working as a golf commentator for NBC, will return to that gig as Foster rejoins Fitzpatrick in two weeks at the WGC St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, Tenn.
“It felt great,’’ Mackay said of being back caddying. “It was a blast. I told Matthew after the first day last week, I was so impressed with his game and his arsenal of shots, and he showed me so much. He’s a very, very good player, and it was a joy to be with him.
“I mean, 68 today, what more could you ask for from the guy?’’
Phil Mickelson had a curious final round Sunday, opting to putt his second shot on the 447-yard, par-4 13th hole while 78 yards from the pin. He later laid up on the par-3 16th, which has been eating players alive all week because the green is almost impossible to hold.
Mickelson shot 78 in Sunday’s final round to finish 9-over for the week.
Asked about his lay-up strategy on 16, Mickelson said, “Yeah, 16 is a hard hole. I played it eight days (including last week) and I’m 10-over (actually 9-over). So, I improved my score today by playing for a 4, and I’ve made four or five doubles on the hole, and it just is a hard golf hole for me.
“Obviously, you can’t go left in the water, and when I go right, usually it’s a hotter shot, like I pull it or it draws and it’s always on the downslope of the bunker, and I just can’t stop it often times on the green. So, I just laid up to where I have an angle to putt it up the green, took a 5 out of play and I was trying to make a 3 and had a 12-footer for it.’’
He didn’t make it. Mickelson, including last week’s Workday Charity Open, carded four double bogeys, three pars and Sunday’s bogey.
Collin Morikawa won last week’s Workday Charity Open at Muirfield Village at 19-under. This week, he finished tied for 51st at 8-over on the same golf course — albeit in severely different condition.
“Just a completely different course,’’ Morikawa said after shooting a final-round 77. “You’ve got to play smart, and I just didn’t play smart.’’
Morikawa said he “thought there was just going to be a lot of momentum’’ for him this week after the victory last week.
“Obviously, there wasn’t,’’ he said. “I just had a tough week.’’
Ryan Palmer and Mackenzie Hughes both qualified for the U.S. Open with their respective Memorial finishes. The USGA gave the top two finishers in the Memorial top-10 who were not otherwise qualified for Winged Foot exemptions. Palmer finished second and Hughes finished tied for sixth.
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