• GROOVES ISSUE: Mickelson said his bag will include a old Ping-Eye 2 wedge that remains legal to use despite the USGA’s regulation requiring more of a V-shaped groove. John Daly and Dean Wilson are other players who found Ping wedges that were legal under an settlement with the USGA in 1990 about square grooves.
Mickelson said he consulted both the USGA and the PGA TOUR and that “the only thing that matters is are they approved for play. So I don’t feel that there’s any problem if I were to play those clubs or if anybody else were. All that matters is that it is OK under the rules of golf.”
Mickelson played collegiately at Arizona State near the Ping headquarters and thus had “a bunch of sets.” He said he took a 60-degree wedge and bent it to 64 degrees. He will maintain a Callaway 60-degree wedge in his bag.
