Another scorcher at Royal Birkdale and there were some seriously hot groups out in Tuesday’s practice rounds.
Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm easily drew the biggest crowd on the Southport links.
And where do we start with Phil?
We’re expecting him to ditch the driver this week in favour of the Callaway 13˚ X Hot 3-wood that he won the 2013 Open with at Muirfield.
The five-time major champion was also seen swinging the new Callaway Epic and Epic Pro irons.
It could be the regular Epic 3-iron along with the Epic Pro 4 and 5-iron in the American’s bag this week
Now these irons have caused a bit of a stir because they are quite expensive.
One thing is for sure, Phil can afford them. It will be really interesting to see if he uses the £1,700 irons when the tournament gets underway on Thursday.
As it approached midday the mercury must have been getting up towards 30 degrees and as the crowds smothered themselves in sun cream, Phil was wearing a body-warmer.
We know the Californian native is a bit nesh (that’s a word we used up north when someone feels the cold a bit easily) but how he wasn’t sweating his proverbials off I just don’t know.
And finally, let’s all enjoy this video of ‘Phil being Phil’. After missing the green to the left of the 13th he pulled out this outrageous flop shot.
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