Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson made for terrible partners at the 2004 Ryder Cup. A decade later, the two appear poised to work together to fix a systemic problem. PGA of America president Ted Bishop has indicated multiple times in the last week there would be change coming to the entire U.S. approach to the […]
Phil Mickelson calls for return of Paul Azinger, or least his Pod system
September 28, 2014 by
Phil Mickelson knows the right man for the job of 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup captain: the man who led the American charge in 2008. Shortly after the Europeans clinched a third-consecutive Ryder Cup on Sunday at Gleneagles, Mickelson suggested Paul Azinger should get another crack at the job. “We had a great formula in ’08,” […]
Phil Mickelson burns McIlroy, McDowell on lawsuit & teamwork
September 25, 2014 by
Your browser does not support iframes. Have you ever thought of a joke that was so good, so clever that you just had to say it, even if it offended some people? Phil Mickelson had such a zinger on Wednesday at the Ryder Cup. Mickelson was responding to a question about the Americans’ camaraderie when […]
Rory McIlroy alludes to Woods, Mickelson career mortality at Tour Championship
September 11, 2014 by
Combine the CVs of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and the numbers are staggering: 121 PGA Tour wins including 19 major championships. Combine their ages, however, and the figure is troublesome. Woods turns 39 in December. Mickelson is 44. That’s 83 years, putting both players closer to the end of their glory days. For the […]
For the second straight day, Phil Mickelson hits tee shot in the grandstands on No. 5, plays it
August 23, 2014 by
If this wasn’t real life, and real sport, nobody would believe what happened to Phil Mickelson on Saturday at The Barclays. A day after wowing the fans with a shot out of the grandstands on the par-4 fifth hole, Mickelson’s tee shot sailed left again on the same hole, hit the cart path just like […]
Phil Mickelson hits tee shot in grandstands, plays it from there
August 23, 2014 by
Phil Mickelson is a fan favorite for a reason. Despite his “aww, shucks” mentality, and how a lot of people got behind him when he continued to come up short in majors before 2004, there is a bit of drama that people like Mickelson, Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino possess that few others in golf […]
Phil Mickelson (and others) hit flop shots over a cardboard cutout of Phil Mickelson
July 12, 2014 by
It has been a busy week for Phil Mickelson’s wedges. He started the week at the Scottish Open hitting a backward flop shot, continued with a wedge shot off a cart path on Thursday that led to a birdie, and now he’s hitting flop shots over a life-sized cutout of himself. The European Tour, always […]
Phil Mickelson makes a birdie off the cart path on Thursday at the Scottish Open
July 11, 2014 by
While 2014 has been a really disappointing season for Phil Mickelson, a refresher of what you’re capable of can really turn things around. A year ago at the Scottish Open, Mickelson won in a playoff, following that up the next week with a Sunday 66 to claim his first ever British Open title and the […]
Phil Mickelson hit another one of those backward wedges during a Scottish Open practice round
July 9, 2014 by
Phil Mickelson will not go down as the greatest golfer ever, or even the best of his generation, but if there is a guy with a better imagination around the greens, I haven’t met him. Mickelson is at Royal Aberdeen preparing for the Scottish Open this week, a tournament he won a year ago a […]
Tom Watson disparaged U.S. players, gift, leading to Mickelson comments
Whether he realized it or not, what Tom Watson said and did the night before the final day of the Ryder Cup may have been why Phil Mickelson skewered him after a third-straight American defeat at Gleneagles. According to an ESPN.com report, Watson’s behavior at a Saturday night team meeting soured the dozen-man American team […]