Q. You seem to bring out the emotion around here more than any other player. I mean, there's just example after example, plus the Super Bowl is going to be a dog tomorrow, so there's going to be a lot more people than usual out here on Sunday. You bring out a lot more people. How wild do you think it's going to get around here tomorrow because it's got some potential to be pretty wild?
PHIL MICKELSON: I hope it's like it has been the past ten years. It's a very unique experience from a player's point of view to play the last five holes with the fairways lined with so many thousands of people and have that type of response. It's just a great feeling. Again, we don't have enough of it. It's just a cool feeling from a player's point of view.
Q. It's almost like being at a football game?
PHIL MICKELSON: Feels like it, yes.
Q. Are they getting close to roaring before impact at 16, some guys?
PHIL MICKELSON: I don't know. I was only there for my group. I hope not, but I'm not sure.
Q. Who are you picking tomorrow in the other sporting event?
PHIL MICKELSON: No idea. I just hope it's a close game.
Q. If you are leaving putts short, longer putts short, can you share your drill with us?
PHIL MICKELSON: Well, first of all, I left a couple short on 13 for eagle. I left it five feet short.
On 14, I left it three feet short.
But the very next hole, on 15, I rolled it six feet by.
On 17, my speed was so far off it rolled two and a half feet by, three feet by, and it never had a chance to catch the break.
The one on 18, I hit right on line and didn't get enough speed. You saw it die at the hole. I needed to roll through it about a foot past the hole.
My drill will be to -- well, it's just a little deal where I try to get all of my putts to stop within 17 inches past the hole, so I'll just keep hitting them until I get so many in a row.
Q. From how far would you start?
PHIL MICKELSON: 20 feet.
Q. And you want them all to stop within --
PHIL MICKELSON: 17 inches.
Q. You put a tee there or something?
PHIL MICKELSON: Yes.
Q. Why 17?
PHIL MICKELSON: Well, 17 is kind of the mathematical number that Dave Pelz and I -- Dave Pelz came up with, not I, but that I've bought into, that if a putt goes that far past the hole it has the optimum speed to catch the hole. If you start going a little too fast, then you're susceptible to lip-outs. If you're going slower you're susceptible to little indentations.
Q. Chris DiMarco was in here talking about how he plays more by feel, he doesn't have a coach or a psychologist and doesn't like to workout. I wonder, because it seems the trend so much the other way, does that strike you as interesting that someone is having success that way, too?
PHIL MICKELSON: No, it doesn't, and I think the reason is that for years the Senior Tour players, when they were playing the regular Tour, fitness was never really a big part of it. Gary Player was the only one that really took it seriously. Certainly things have changed, and it's hit in college golf and it's reaching junior golf now. But when Chris and I, we're about the same age, when we went through college it wasn't a real big part of our regime.
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: Can we go through your three birdies.
PHIL MICKELSON: Birdied 8, driver, 7-iron to six feet.
Birdied 14, driver, 4-iron to 30 feet, two-putt.
Birdied 15, driver, 6-iron, two-putt.
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: How long was it?
PHIL MICKELSON: 30 feet.
Q. How many times have you gone for the green on 15? All three times?
PHIL MICKELSON: I went twice. Yesterday the wind was in and I didn't go for it. Today it was a 6-iron. The first day it was a 4-wood.
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: Thanks, Phil.
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