Phil Mickelson wearing his caddie's tennis shoe to wade into a pond and play from the hazard at the Presidents Cup was not a spontaneous decision. Years ago, caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay said they were playing on a sunny day when Mickelson was in a bunker with white sand. It was so bright in the bunker that Mickelson asked to borrow his caddie's sunglasses, and that got them to thinking what other items a player could use that belonged to his looper. "He asked about shoes, and the rules official at the time told him he could," Mackay said. So when the opportunity presented itself on the 15th hole at Royal Montreal, Mackay took off his size-14 sneaker and gave it to the Mickelson -- the left shoe, naturally -- but not without twice checking with referee John Paramor.
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