Phil Mickelson (and others) hit flop shots over a cardboard cutout of Phil Mickelson

It has been a busy week for Phil Mickelson’s wedges. He started the week at the Scottish Open hitting a backward flop shot, continued with a wedge shot off a cart path on Thursday that led to a birdie, and now he’s hitting flop shots over a life-sized cutout of himself. The European Tour, always […]

Phil Mickelson, the king of the flop shot, gives us another great one on Thursday at the St. Jude

In 100 years from now, golf fans will remember only certain things about this generation of golfers. We will remember the Tiger Slam and and his win at the 1997 Masters. We won’t forget about guys like Ernie Els, Fred Couples, and the late Payne Stewart. And we will always remember Phil Mickelson as the […]

Rickie Fowler and Peter Uihlein show off their flop shot skills

Sometimes we forget just how good these PGA Tour players really are. Week in and week out we see so many holed out iron shots and 300 yard drives that land in the middle of the fairway that we get immune to the talent that makes it on our televisions at each event. Rickie Fowler […]

Phil Mickelson hit a ridiculous flop shot during his second round at TPC Boston

There are plenty of words you could use to describe Phil Mickelson’s golf game, but predictable would not be one of them. The guy shot a 63 on Friday at the Deutsche Bank Championship but had to hit a shot on his final hole out of the woods, saving a bogey to keep his low […]

Old Videos That Never Get Old: Phil Mickelson’s flop shot over Roger Cleveland

You know how you know a video is two years old? When it involves the flop shot, a golf shot that was a pretty big fad on the PGA Tour for a number of years until players realized that it was actually a pretty low percentage shot. You hardly ever see the guys take the […]