Mickelson relieved to make PGA Championship cut after 2nd-round struggles
Associated PressPITTSFORD, N.Y. — After plunking a tee shot in the water, and missing 10 fairways and six greens in regulation, Phil Mickelson closed a haphazard second round at the PGA Championship on Friday clinging to the one positive he could find. Since winning the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, Mickelson has missed the cut in five of the last seven non-LIV Golf tournaments he’s entered, including the U.S. Open and British Open last year. Mickelson’s best finish in six LIV tournaments this year was 15th at Singapore, which followed a 16th-place finish at Adelaide, Australia, on consecutive weekends last month. “I didn’t know that they changed the rule this year, whereby you normally could take the point in line and then you have that two club-length semicircle,” Mickelson said. “It makes me optimistic that I still made the cut playing as poorly as I did, and I think if I can get it turned around, I think I can make a run.” Whatever loud cheers and shouts of support from the three- and four-deep galleries Mickelson enjoyed during his practice round on Wednesday were reduced to polite clapping and the occasional well-wisher as he settled for par on his final hole, No.