I think the most interesting thing about this shot is that Phil Mickelson really had no reason to execute it. At this point in the round, he had a two-shot lead in the final grouping, 1/2 of his closest competition (AK) was just finishing up his round, and Tiger was like 5 shots back with 4 to play. He could have punched out to 100 yards, maybe made birdie and still maintained at worst a 1 shot lead over the closest competitor. The potential downside however, was dropping at least a shot if the ball went in the water, and most likely losing the tournament. Luck favours the bold?
*jordan Spieth hits it to 78 feet between 2015 and 2017*: ahhh fuck he’s gonna make that
*jordan Spieth hits it to 5 feet in 2026*: yeah this has no fuckin chance
Anyone who posted this graphic should legitimately be tried for treason. We got a slight breeze in the morning wave and now half the course is playing tpc Nantucket with the greens rolling a 6 on the stimp.
How tf is Wyndham Clark 6 under on supposedly the hardest US Open course on supposedly one of the hardest tournament days conditions-wise. Re-tighten the fairways, stop watering the greens (!!!), and make the course harder! This is a US Open at an over-par-winning-score course!
Dustin Johnson: turning back the clock
Rahm / Bryson: humming along
Wyndy C: staying hot
Fitzy: huge bounce back
Literally everyone else in PM wave: taking advantage of benign conditions
Jordan Spieth subplot:
continual learning did not bring us gpt-5.5 codex, better pretraining did. obsessive pragmatism in pretraining is what fuels the success of the latest claude models, not romanticizing "what could be" if we cracked some ill-defined moonshot.
Jalen Brunson "To all the students taking the Gaokao, don't be nervous…Good luck"
Josh Hart "This is your guys playoff moment, the Finals…relax…stay confident…and kill it"
Today 13 million Chinese high schoolers take the grueling all-important Gaokao college entrance exam🇨🇳