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Harry Higgs after the match: “I ran my big mouth and a Hall of Famer put me in my place.”
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — It wasn’t exactly Mohammed Ali and George Forman’s “Rumble in the Jungle,” but the Tuesday morning match between Phil Mickelson and Joel Dahmen against Harry Higgs and Keith Mitchell had the attention of everyone at Liberty National Golf Club.
Smiles and snickers were everywhere as the four walked to the first tee at 10 a.m. Rory McIlroy peaked across the fairway before teeing off on the second hole to catch the action, and Harris English called over a row of mounds on the 14th hole to get an update on the score.
In the end, Mickelson and Dahman came back from 2 down through four holes to win the 18-hole match, 3 and 1.
“I think we were all looking forward to playing today, which is great,” Mickelson said afterward. “We had a great time, and we had the right outcome, really. I think we had the outcome we all really certainly expecting, and I think, hoping for.”
It was classic Mickelson smack talk on a day filled with zingers. If you have not been following this saga, here’s the backstory.
On the Sunday before the start of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Higgs decided to answer questions posted by his Twitter followers. People lobbed in questions about the best shot Higgs had ever seen, the best shot he’d ever hit and so on. Then a follower asked Higgs this:
I’ll play with anyone. And I don’t think @PhilMickelson is ready for my trash talk
Twenty minutes later, after Mickelson’s second shot on the third hole came up well short of the green, Higgs returned the favor and yelled, “Hey Joel would you like a par as a partner?”
Instead of having Mickelson hit his pitch shot, Dahmen putted from 10 feet away and made his birdie. Mickelson then started pontificating about how golfers tend to miss putts on the high side of the hole when they need to make hole-halving putts. Of course, he talked loudly enough to let Higgs and Mitchell hear him, which was the point, but Mitchell made his birdie putt anyway.
“Paht-nah!” yelled Higgs.
After falling 2 down through four holes, Dahmen made a birdie on the fifth hole to win it. Then Mickelson’s drive on the sixth went so far right that it stopped in the seventh fairway. But he hit a great shot and then made an eagle putt to win the hole and square the match before making a birdie on the seventh put he and Dahmen 1 up.
While the match was going on, Mickelson was live tweeting.
It’s all coming together now folks. Joel and I both birdie 13 to go 2 up and everyone here (and on Twitter) can sense the inevitable. We should have Keith off the course well before his 2:30 deadline. You’re welcome as Bubba would say 😏
On the 17th hole, after both Higgs and Mitchell missed their birdie putts, Mickelson called out to Dahmen. “Let’s end this with an exclamation point.”
Dahmen then rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt to give him and Mickelson their 3 and 1 win.
“We lost. That would be the extent of my take,” Higgs said after walking off the 18th green. “I ran my big mouth and a Hall of Famer put me in my place. But it was fun to get out with Phil, Joel is a great friend and Keith is a great friend as well. We had a blast. I would have like to have won, but I do think it was good preparation. I had a few nerves at times, it mattered a little bit. You want to beat Phil and anyone else you are playing with, but the lead up to it created some nerves. It was fun, it was nice to experience that on a Tuesday, when you are usually just walking around looking for places where you need to hit it and not need to hit it.”
On several occasions, Phil Mickelson helped Joel Dahmen read putts at Liberty National. Photo by David Dusek/Golfweek
All four players wanted to win, but the most interesting thing about the match was watching the 51-year-old Mickelson interact with his partner, Dahmen (33) as well as Higgs (29) and Mitchell (29). On several occasions, he gave Dahmen a read on putts, and explained his philosophy on putting and green reading. He answered Mitchell’s questions about golf balls, and on the 17th green, gave Higgs advice about being himself and not being afraid to have fun on the course, because that’s when Higgs will play his best golf.
Phil Mickelson had some words of advice for Harry Higgs on the 17th green at Liberty National. Photo by David Dusek/Golfweek
“Phil and I are somewhat similar in that our true selves are somewhat vivacious, if you will. I don’t know if I’m using the right word there, but it’s a big word and it sounded nice,” Higgs said. “I know my best-performing self is a bit of a showoff, someone who interacts here and there. (Phil) put it great and said there are times when you have to harness it because you know it will help you and other times where have to give it no power and basically taker care of your business on and off the golf course.”
It’s the kind of advice that John Daly could have used 25 years ago, and that Higgs, who has developed a cult following of fans thanks to his fun-loving, everyman appeal, will be wise to follow.
So will there be a rematch?
“The key is to win in a way that is not so dominant that they believe they can win, and then come back for me,” Mickelson said, speaking like a shark in a pool of gold fish. “I think they are. I think they are going to come back for me, and that was really the challenge for Joel and I.”
A practice round at Augusta National has much of the ANWA field wishing time could slow down.
AUGUSTA, Georgia – Practice rounds at college events are so long and tedious that USC senior Amelia Garvey started an Instagram series called “The Garvs Show.” (Apparently there are logoed sweatshirts.) Friday’s practice round at Augusta National – which lasted over five hours – is perhaps the only practice round in all golf that goes by too fast.
Garvey missed the cut and won’t be playing in Saturday’s finale, but she wore a perma-grin throughout the round. There was no need for Instagram to keep things interesting. If there’s ever a time to be present and unplugged, it’s at Augusta National.
“I’m still at a loss for words,” said Abbey Carlson, a Vanderbilt graduate who took a job at Boeing on the Advanced Design and Prototype Solutions team last July.
“Everything here is perfect.”
Carlson struck a 7-iron to 2 feet on the 12th hole at Augusta National, a birdie she’ll never forget. Garvey was quite proud to play Amen Corner in 1 under. She shot even on the day with an eagle on the par-5 second hole.
“There were nerves the whole way ’round,” said Garvey, “just because of how hard the shots are.”
Rachel Heck, a Stanford freshman, trails by three heading into Saturday’s final round, but the ANWA rookie couldn’t help being wrapped up in the magic of the place.
“My little sister was carrying a camera and I just feel like every five minutes I was like ‘Anna, take a picture of this! Take a picture of this!’ ” said Heck. “It was a little bit hard to really focus on getting a feel for the course. But what’s most important, you know? I’m just going to soak it all in.”
Augusta National caddies toted the bags on Saturday and players eagerly soaked up every bit of advice. Heck’s father Robert caddied earlier in the week, but he’ll step aside on Saturday to let a local caddie guide his middle child around what could be the most important round of her young life.
“He caddied the first two rounds,” said Heck, “but it might jeopardize our father-daughter relationship if he was telling me where to putt on those greens. So we thought it was best to get someone who knows what they’re doing.”
Duke’s Gina Kim, a feel-oriented player who enjoyed the U-turns her ball took on the firm and fast greens, got a big kick out of trying to skip the ball over water on the 16th.
“I almost got it there,” said Kim, who sits two back. “I was pretty successful. It just hit the bank and kind of came back, but for a first-timer I thought it was pretty good.”
Kate Smith, the Nebraska senior who held an early three-shot lead over at Champions Retreat and missed the cut after a playoff, felt like she should’ve been sad after Thursday’s missed opportunity. But a big-picture perspective wouldn’t allow that to happen.
Friday’s practice round at Augusta quickly surpassed every other experience of Smith’s in this game. Her parents were there. Older brother Karter, who played college golf at Drake, got to walk inside the ropes because he caddied the first two days. On Amen Corner, the whole family went inside the ropes to take a photo together. Smith joked that it might be the family Christmas card for the foreseeable future.
“Obviously I didn’t bring home a trophy or do anything spectacular myself,” said Smith, “but I really think this experience isn’t about me as an individual. It’s more about the game of golf, and all of us being here as a whole. It definitely ranks at the top.”
