Phil Mickelson off PGA Tour for two weeks with injury; Daly leads skins event

The wrist injury that Phil Mickelson agitated chipping from the rough at the Oakmont Country Club will keep him out of this week’s Travelers Championship. A doctor told Mickelson not to play for at least two weeks. Mickelson did not make the cut at last week’s U.S. Open …

John Daly won two skins yesterday to lead the Telus World Skins. Stephen Ames was the only other player than Daly, who earned $30,000, to win a skin on the first day …

At 70, actor Morgan Freeman says he has found his own personal spiritual journey on the golf course …

“When you’re aiming at the golf ball, it’s the only thing in the universe of any importance,” he wrote in a piece for Newsweek. “You’re totally alone at the green.”

Freeman is currently in Prague, Czech Republic, shooting a movie and hitting the links in his spare time …

At GolfCarolina.com, Tim McDonald writes about taking in a bit of America’s history at The Links at Stono Ferry in Charleston, S.C.