{"id":399185,"date":"2021-05-24T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=399185"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:38:24","slug":"phil-the-thrills-big-win-at-the-game-rush-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/24\/phil-the-thrills-big-win-at-the-game-rush-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil the Thrill\u2019s Big Win at the Game Rush Loved"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: I gotta tell you, friends, I was watching the PGA yesterday, all four hours, and I thought of Rush, my friend Rush Limbaugh. You know, let me tell you something. There\u2019s something about golf that doesn\u2019t build character. It reveals character. Right? If you have played it, you know exactly what I\u2019m talking about. And I\u2019m watching this momentous, historical performance by Phil the Thrill in the PGA. The oldest man to win a major, and so many records, or I should say set such a historical precedent. And I don\u2019t think Mickelson is done. I really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s transformed himself, and he\u2019s hitting the ball further than he ever had. He had a drive yesterday, 360 yards, longest drive of the week. The guy\u2019s 50 years old. I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s the coffee. Coffee for Wellness<\/a>. Woke up this morning, drank 40 cups of that, Phil\u2019s coffee, and then started giving my wife a thumbs-up all day long. Crazy.<\/p>\n

\"\"But I thought of Rush because I know he would have been talking about this. This was, if you\u2019re a golfer, as I am and he was, this is historic. Oldest player ever to win a major championship. And that sand shot, that bunker shot<\/a>, it was classic Phil. Here\u2019s one thing you gotta understand about Phil. He\u2019s very much like Arnie. He\u2019s popular with the fans, but well, Palmer was popular with the media. But the media haven\u2019t liked Phil that much, quite frankly, since at the Bob Hope Desert Classic years ago he said, “Look, I\u2019m getting killed in California taxes.” In fact, his quote was, “This ain\u2019t working for me.” He won the British Open, brought the money back, and his California and federal tax rate took 62% of it. And that\u2019s when he first started thinking about moving to Jupiter or wherever he\u2019s going to end up, right? That is, Florida, friends.<\/p>\n

And, oh my gosh. He was pilloried, how dare you? Who is the, there was an idiot on MSNBC that would say, “Phil, did you real build this?” No, it\u2019s the man on the Moon. You know, they went after him. So since then they\u2019ve been after this guy. That\u2019s one of the reasons I like him. He\u2019s persevered. Well, there was also this, quote, unquote, brouhaha that they blew out of proportion years ago. I shouldn\u2019t say years ago. It was about three years ago. And Rush actually put it in perspective. And it was about Phil. And here\u2019s what Rush said.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you want me to explain what Phil Mickelson did? The USGA runs the U.S. Open, the United States golf association. And they\u2019re not associated with any particular club. They go in and they rent the club and they take it over for like four years before the Open. They are in charge of setting it up. The pin placements, the length of the grass, how fast the greens are running. And the USGA claims to want to have a tournament, the U.S. Open, that identifies, that\u2019s their word, the absolute best golfer of those four days. With the toughest reasonable test that can be designed.<\/p>\n

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