Sorry, Phil.

PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem says the tour won't change its cell-phone policy for fans despite complaints from Phil Mickelson, according to Bloomberg's Mike Buteau. The Tour's current policy allows fans to bring phones onto the course and use them in designated areas. Fans are not supposed to take photos or videos with their smart phones during the tournament.

“We’re committed to making it work,” Finchem said in an interview while playing in a pro-am round at the Champions Tour’s Tradition event in Birmingham, Alabama. “If we get to a point where we don’t have an acceptable competitive environment, we’ll do whatever we need to do, but I don’t see that happening.”

Mickelson withdrew from last week's Memorial Tournament after sending a text message to Finchem from the sixth fairway complaining about cell-phone use in the stands. Finchem did not comment on Lefty's mid-round message, and Mickelson's spokesman T.R. Reinman said that Mickelson will not address the issue again.

“It’s in the past for Phil,” Reinman said in a telephone interview. He declined further comment and said Mickelson wouldn’t address the issue any more. Mickelson had cited exhaustion in announcing his withdrawal. Finchem refused to say whether he spoke with Mickelson.

Mickelson will get a little peace and quiet at Olympic next week, though: The USGA does not allow cell phones at the tournament.

DUBLIN, Ohio -- Rory McIlroy had a simple explanation for why he suddenly added next week's St. Jude Classic to his schedule.

"I just feel like I need some rounds."

Then he paused for a moment before the punchline.

"These two-day weeks aren't really that good for me."

McIlroy has always poked fun at himself, and after a few rough weeks, it was clear Wednesday McIlroy isn't hitting the panic button yet.

He missed the cut in his last two starts -- the Players and the BMW PGA -- and admitted last week he may have slacked a little bit in his preparation. McIlroy elaborated Wednesday at Muirfield Village that he also hadn't seen his coach, Michael Bannon, that much this year. The two met last week after McIlroy missed the cut, and Bannon is here this week to fine-tune McIlroy's swing before he defends his U.S. Open title in two weeks.

But first, McIlroy wants to get to the weekend here at the Memorial Tournament, where he's finished in the top 10 twice in three starts.

"When you've went on a run where you've hardly finished outside the top five and then all of a sudden two missed cuts, it's more of a shock than anything else, just a little bit surprising, and it's something I haven't really had to deal with in a while," McIlroy said. "I just have to knuckle down and figure it out and get back to the way I was at the start of the year."

Even though McIlroy has a U.S. Open in his trophy case and has reached No. 1 several times, he's still 23 years old and trying to figure out life on Tour. This year McIlroy jumped to the PGA Tour full time and moved from Northern Ireland to Florida. Oh, and he began dating tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. 

"This year has been a big learning curve for me because I'm still trying to find a balance between being a top‑class golfer and handling media commitments, sponsors' commitments, trying to have a life outside of all that, just trying to balance everything," McIlroy said. "It's something that it's hard to do all of them all at the same time. Yeah, it's something that I'm still figuring out how to do. But I've got a good team around me, and we're trying to figure that out at the minute."

McIlroy is also getting used to the 24/7 scrutiny of his game. He'll likely never be under the microscope as much as Tiger Woods, but McIlroy is certainly a player whose game is now dissected every week. Smashing U.S. Open records and being No. 1 tends to bring a little more attention, which he learned the hard way last week after he chucked a 6-iron after a bad shot at the BMW PGA.

"I didn't think it was that big a deal, and then I wake up the next morning and it's all over the papers in the UK, and I'm just like, Oh, my God," McIlroy said. "It's just one of those things, and it's something I'm going to have to deal with and learn how to do."

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DUBLIN, Ohio -- When Jack Nicklaus started the Memorial Tournament, he wanted to model it after a little tournament down in Augusta, Ga. And just like the Masters, the Memorial Tournament has a few traditions every year that make the event special. Now that he’s done playing, Nicklaus doesn’t do too many press conferences, so every year at Muirfield Village, Jack’s presser has become a must-see event since it offers a rare opportunity to pick the brain of golf’s greatest champion. Here are a few highlights:

On Bubba's shot at the Masters: “I'm trying to visualize how much he hooked the ball at 10 at Augusta. I don't know how much he hooked it, but he obviously hooked it a lot. But what amazed me was when the ball came down on the green with a hook as hard as he hit it, it backed up. It backed up the hill, and I said, How do you make a golf ball do that? That was kind of interesting I thought.”

On taking control of his golf swing: “[Bobby Jones] said I need to be responsible for my own swing and understand when I have problems on the golf course how I can correct those problems on the golf course myself without having to run back to somebody.

“And during the years that I was playing most of my competitive golf, I saw Jack Grout maybe once or twice a year for maybe an hour. If I was in the Miami area or something, I'd run down and see Jack and we'd spend about an hour and we'd spend five minutes on the golf swing and an hour catching up. But he taught me young the fundamentals of the game. He taught me how to assess what I was doing. When I made a mistake, when I was doing things, how do you on the golf course fix that without putting yourself out of a golf tournament and then teaching yourself.”

On talking with Tiger about his swing changes: “I was asking him, Why do you need somebody to watch you all the time? He said, I really don't. He said, I go to Sean and I get some ideas, but then I really go work on it myself and try to learn what I want to do and how I want to do it, which I think is the right way. I said, If you're doing that, you're on the right track, but all I read in the papers is how Sean is making a swing change on you. He said, That's not what I'm doing. I said, Okay, that's fine then, because he's trying to be responsible for himself.”

On winning his first U.S. Open 50 years ago: “I almost won in '60 at Cherry Hills, and I really look back, it's one that I gave away. But I was 20 years old. I gave it away because I didn't know how to win. And then the next year I didn't really give it away, but I had a good chance to win, and I finished fourth. I felt going into Oakmont that, man, I'm not letting this one get away.”

On his recent visit with Arnold Palmer at Oakmont: “The purpose of the visit to Oakmont was to try to get a couple of shots for a special they're doing for USGA on the '62 Open, 50 years since then. And Arnold says, Why do I have to do that? They want me to do the one with Casper in '67. I lost them both. (Laughter.) I said, You won enough. We'll get to yours that they won. I said, Did they do one at Cherry Hills, Arnold? Yeah. Okay, I lost there. We were kidding each other about it.”

On the early days of the Tour: “We talked about traveling in the car, back in the day when we didn't have disposable diapers, and we had a diaper pail in the backseat with a port-a-crib and off we went. Let me tell you, you'd better keep the windows open. I'll tell you what, it didn't smell very good.

“And all the players, we'd all try to figure out and go to the same motel so we could have cookouts, and then the wives would take turns watching other people's kids. If one of the guys was in contention, the other wives would take care of their kids and they'd go watch their husband play golf. We did a lot of that kind of stuff in the days when we were playing.”

On being a slow player: “I got a two stroke penalty at Portland, and I got a two stroke penalty at Houston playing with Cary Middlecoff, and he didn't get a penalty, so then I knew I was really slow. You don't know Cary Middlecoff, but he was the slowest.”

DUBLIN, Ohio –- Dustin Johnson knew it’d been a while since he’d been on tour when he arrived at the Memorial Tournament and realized he forgot to pack a key part of his wardrobe -– belts.

“Wasn’t quite in the routine,” Johnson joked Tuesday at Muirfield Village.

Johnson has been sidelined with a back injury he suffered while trying to help a friend move a jet ski. The injury forced Johnson to miss the Masters, and he hasn’t played in a tournament since a T35 at Doral in March.

“I really didn't touch a club for five, six weeks,” Johnson said.

This is the second time in less than a year that one of the tour’s brightest stars has been out with an injury. Johnson had knee surgery in November to repair cartilage, and he was returning to full strength when he injured his back.

“I had knee surgery and then I rehabbed that, and really, that went really well,” Johnson said. “And then to have a back injury was pretty frustrating. But I'm all healthy now and all good, and I'm ready to play golf.”

Johnson’s back will be tested in the next few weeks as he tackles Muirfield Village this week, and then Memphis next week before heading to the U.S. Open at Olympic Club, a place Johnson knows well. In 2007, Johnson lost in the first round of the U.S. Amateur at Olympic.

“It played tough during the U.S. Am,” Johnson said. “I know they've made some changes, but I think it's a good course.”

Johnson could use a good finish this week, not only for his confidence, but also because he’s slipped all the way to 24th in the Ryder Cup standings. Johnson was a key part of the last U.S. Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams, but he calmly dismissed the notion there was any added pressure to make the team.

“I want to be on the team, and I'm going to do whatever I can to make it,” Johnson said. “Obviously having a couple months off hurts a little bit, but I've still got plenty of time to make the team.”

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