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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
No shit.
IIRC, Phil's worst round this week was -1, and he threw up a 63 and a 65.
Yet gets smoked by 3 shots, even though he was eleventy-billion shots clear of 3rd place.
11 runner up finishes in a major, and he's even going to be the runner up in that category as well behind Nicklaus.
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Essentially every other golfer besides Tiger that has won as many majors as Phil had a 50% win percentage when in the top two. Jack was 18/37, Watson was 8/15, Palmer 7/15, and so on. Phil is 5/16 and two of those 11 include the third and fourth lowest aggregate scores in major championship history.
When my wife asked me how the tournament went today I told her, "Phil had four birdies, an eagle, and no bogeys. He shot the best round on the course by two shots...except for the guy who was playing with him who shot a mother****ing 63, because sports are ****ing stupid."
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Even excusing the shit early in his career, since 2014, these are his three runner up finishes:
-15 at the PGA, loses by one shot despite shooting a 66 on Sunday, in part because the guy who beat him hit a three wood off the neck that he thought was terrible and somehow rolled up to 10 feet when he thought it was going into the woods.
-14 at the Masters the year that Speith ties the scoring record.
-17 at the British when no one else was within 10 shots of him, but the guy that beat him shot the low round of the day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Also, said guy was 187th on tour in putting, but fourth this week.