What Is Phil Mickelson’s Window to Win Another Major?

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Published: June 27, 2013

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To be perfectly honest, I thought that Phil Mickelson's window had already been closed and bolted prior to the U.S. Open.

I thought Mickelson's best chance was 2006 at Winged Foot when he stubbornly and foolishly launched his driver off the roof of a hospitality tent on the 18th tee that led to a calamity of errors and another missed U.S. Open possibility.

But when he unexpectedly played so well a couple weeks ago at Merion, I re-thought that opinion for a second.

Then he missed the green on the 110-yard yard, par-three 13th late Sunday afternoon, and the noise I heard in the background was that window slamming shut again.

Then, in a bit of piling on perhaps, he came to the 18th tee needing a birdie to catch Justin Rose. To get that birdie, he and everyone else knew he needed to hit the fairway.

But he missed it left, leaving a bad lie for a long shot that had to get onto the green. But it didn’t, and Mickelson’s last gasp was to hope for a miracle shot from his short game, and that didn’t happen.

To me, that validates my feeling about Mickelson that I’ve had for a long time:

He’s a heck of player. He’s in the World Golf of Fame. He’s won four majors.

But he’s so talented, he should have won a handful more than that. The reason he hasn’t? At critical times in those other opportunities, when he’s had to hit a shot, he’s failed to do so.



The U.S. Open was just the latest example. And while my feeling takes nothing away from what he’s accomplished, it has kept him from winning more.

Mickelson celebrated his 43rd birthday on that fateful Sunday at Merion. That hardly makes him elderly, even in golf terms.

Ten majors have been won by golfers at least as old at Mickelson, including Jack Nicklaus, who was 46 when he won the 1986 Masters, and Julius Boros, who was 48...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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