Mickelson Likes His New Driver, Playing West Coast and Staying off Social Media

By Kathy Bissell
at Internationaled.org

Published: January 15, 2014

If you want to watch Phil Mickelson this week, it's time to stay up late or get up early. He and Rory McIlroy are both at the Abu Dhabi HSBC with television times starting at 4 a.m. ET on Golf Channel.

Mickelson seemed more than ready to test out his new driver, the club he hopes will allow him to win the U.S. Open. The Alpha Driver, a part of the Big Bertha line, won't be in shops until February, but of course, Mickelson has it now. His is a 9-degree loft. He thinks it's a career changer and could give him his best season ever.

"As I look back on 2013, I played some of my best golf and had some huge breakthroughs, but I did most of it without a driver," he explained. He used a 3-wood, not always, but often. "This year, we have the best driver I've ever hit that lowers my pin rate just like my 3-wood."

The reason is that in the past, he said he had to change his swing to hit driver. With the Alpha Big Bertha, he can use the same swing for his driver that he uses with his irons. Also, this driver gives him a lower spin rate than he has had in the past.

"I spin the ball more than anybody, and so what happens is, they end up giving me a driver with [6.5, seven] degrees of loft to knock that spin off," he said about the drivers he has used previously. "Now what we did instead is I've got a driver with [9.5], 10 degrees of loft, that they have this gravity core that lowers the centre of gravity and knocks off the spin."

He says it's longer and straighter than he has been with the beloved 3-wood from 2013.

"It's a whole different weapon in my arsenal now," he added. "If I drive the ball well, like I have been in practice and I have been this [offseason], heading into this 2014 season, [this] could be the best year of my career for that simple reason."

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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