Watch Phil Mickelson snap the head off his club in Texas Open sand trap

Thursday’s round at the Texas Open has featured some of the more brutal conditions in several years on the PGA Tour. There have been a handful of triple bogeys, quadruple bogeys, quintuple bogeys, and even a sextuple bogeys. The wind blew balls back off the green and several players, like D.A. Points, struggled just to keep it under 90. The morning scoring average was the highest it’s been on Tour since the 2007 U.S. Open.

It’s been an extraordinary day full of carnage, but those high winds had settled a bit in the afternoon. That didn’t mean that the course stopped claiming victims.

Phil Mickelson has had a smooth enough round, but he’ll have to finish up with just 13 clubs in the bag. At the par-4 12th, Mickelson sent his drive into a fairway bunker some 153 yards from the hole. He went into the bunker with an 8-iron and came out with a useless shaft. Here’s hoping he doesn’t have any 8-iron distances coming into the house.