Everything was clicking for Phil Mickelson. The bombs were landing, the hellacious seeds were being planted, and the putts were falling during the opening round of the Workday Charity Open.
And then he made the turn.
It was a rough transition to the back nine at Muirfield Village for Mickelson, who has been a regular for nearly two decades at the Memorial but rarely saw splits like this: out in 4-under 32, home in 5-over 41. It added up to a 73 that took him from the first page of the leaderboard to the wrong side of the cut line.