European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Pace 43 As soon As the Golf whining begins the area Between the club House and the Golf shop at Oakmont country club was meant to be a place where can meet drop off maybe Swap a tale or the people who run the open tried their Best to do every thing to make players Happy just like they do their Best to make them squirm everywhere its a genteel under Neath tall Trees with an adjoining dining area for girlfriends and personal just a few Steps away theres a parking lot loaded with lexus gs450s to ease the drive life is Good for the privileged few who get Rich playing volunteers part for bring them food and water and pretty much Cater to their every they cant possibly have any thing to complain on it was about All they its it really Phil Mickelson Mickelson want talking about the drive across the Allegheny or the flight Home in his Pri vate the Oakmont rough was his big though the Slick greens also gave him fits on this he want Happy about liquid fertilize or new machines that suck the grass up so the Ball sits Down in the Mickelson wont have to worry anymore because he didst make the but lefty want As the first wave of casualties arrived off the 18th the Patio area was filled with furtive embarrassed expressions and players who looked like they wanted to rip the num Bers off the scoreboards held aloft by the Standard some Gath ered outside to co miser though they didst stay there were other places they would rather other things they would rather be ready to Start drinking one said to another after his maybe you haunt but this is the you the tournament they hold every june with tricked up tiny ribbons of fairways and linoleum the one everyone loves most to and the one everyone would love most to win the one that caused such an outcry years ago that a Golf association official was forced to defend it by saying the organizations goal want to Embarrass the Best golfers in the world but to identify was there any reason you thought it  be this Way apparently judging from the dazed expression on the faces of players who got a break on thurs Day Only to find Oakmont playing at its snarling Best in the second the Sun was the wind was and greens were so excruciatingly fast that Chris Phil Mickelson failed to make the Cut Friday after the second balls Seldom had a Chance to set tie anywhere near the just walking through the Park ing lot is Bubba Watson the Field averaged nearly 77 strokes on a par70 the top four players in the world were a combined 28 Over no players it want really their blame the people in the blazers who run the Urga and believe it is their Mission in life to make a course so hard that even the Best players using the latest in grooved technology and Golf balls that dance on command come off it mumbling expletives under their amateurs running a profession Al Guys who cant break 80 on a Good Day deciding How to set up a course for a game there unfamiliar this  happen at the Bob Hope sometimes its hard to accept you hit great shots and make to Henry Par was just a concept on this and Birdie a Remote when two time Champion Lee Janzen rolled a 55footer through two across three ledges and through the clowns Mouth for one on the ninth it was a rare feelgood moment on a Day when embarrassment loomed on every there Are times you feel if theres a Hole next to the Bunker and you can crawl in it would be Janzen there Arent Many places to hide at the Trees that used to Une the fair ways have been Cut and the course lays open to both players and the rough int going to get any Shorter Over the next two and the greens Arent going to get any the player who finally scratches his Way to win the coveted major will have to Deal with both Over the next 36 Tiger Woods understands that better than most because Hes won two of these but even he was shaking his head with a wry Grin on his practically begging the Urga to at least water the greens they plan to do that but insist that things Are just the Way they want even Par is leading the and that just Fine with the Guys in somebody did shoot a right so what that 35 others  break 80 leave it to an englishman playing another coun try National championship to be among the rare few to theres no Point bitching and moaning that it is a difficult Golf course because it is a Tough Golf Ian Poulter it is not supposed to be Tim Dahlberg is a National sports Colum nist for the associated write to him  posing soon shipping or awaiting household goods a shipping crunch is gripping Europe of s what Are the get answers from the experts at army installation management command open line tune in to open line on an Power network radio june 20th 1011 Call in during the show Dan 3894595 Civ 0621462146085595 Germany or email your questions in Advance  Mickelson misses key putts and the open Cut by Nancy Armour the associated press at least lefty got this one out of the Way Phil Mickelson had yet another disappointing but in Stead of a spectacular 72nd Hole he went quietly this shooting a 77 Friday that left him 11 Over and making alter Nate plans for his like resting that achy left i Felt i had made a great move Early in the round if i just kind of made a couple bogeys and didst do too much said Mick who turns 37 on but 7 through 10 did me six Over in those four holes take six shots in right there at 5 for All the fears about his bum wrist and what that Black Brace More suited for Bowling than birdies would do to his it was his putting that really during a four Hole swing where he dropped six he had a three putt followed by a Mickelson finished with a 36hqle total of and was sent Home when Angel Cabrera made a Birdie on his last he re turned to san Diego on night to have the wrist it was his first missed Cut in 31 majors since the 1999 British open at the longest Active Streak on the i didst Knock Mick Mickelson knocked out Cabrera he shot 11 Over at 10over the Cut equated the opens highest in relation to set at Bethpage in it was 9 Over last year at winged Mickelson want the Only big name to miss the Adam Henrik Luke Donald and two time open Champion he Tief Goosen All in the top 10 in the world ranking failed to make the so did Colin Mont who had a Flam out of his own last and Sergio Gar but Mickelson saw this com when someone asked him after his round about making the he looked that would be pretty unbelievable if 11 Over was top half of the he i cant buy that i dont think