Each week for the remainder of the golf season we will be rolling out a mailbag, with any and all questions invited from readers and fans around the world. Have a good question you want answered? Hit me up on Twitter at @shanebacon or e-mail me at shanebaconblogs@yahoo.com and we will try to get to it […]
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 […]
Father, wheelchair-bound son accompany Phil Mickelson around Pinehurst
June 16, 2014 by
PINEHURST, NC – Phil Mickelson walked up the 18th fairway at Pinehurst to the cheers of the gallery and the chimes of the nearby Village Chapel. He was making this walk, hearing these cheers, about three hours earlier than he’d wanted; yet again a trip to the US Open would end without a trophy for […]
A painful run through Phil Mickelson’s six U.S. Open second-place finishes
June 10, 2014 by
Take the movie “Titanic,” multiply it by the book “The Fault In Our Stars” and any three Morrissey records, and you’ll start to get an idea of the heartbreak the U.S. Open has brought Phil Mickelson. Sure, he’s one of the greatest golfers in history, already a deserving Hall of Famer. But the U.S. Open […]
Phil Mickelson, the king of the flop shot, gives us another great one on Thursday at the St. Jude
June 6, 2014 by
In 100 years from now, golf fans will remember only certain things about this generation of golfers. We will remember the Tiger Slam and and his win at the 1997 Masters. We won’t forget about guys like Ernie Els, Fred Couples, and the late Payne Stewart. And we will always remember Phil Mickelson as the […]
Phil Mickelson named in federal insider trading inquiry
May 31, 2014 by
Phil Mickelson’s name has surfaced in a federal investigation into insider trading, along with those of investor Carl Icahn and noted gambler Billy Walters. None of the three men is accused of any wrongdoing. But federal investigators are examining trades involving the men’s connection to two separate companies, Clorox and Dean Foods. Specifically, the investigation […]
Phil Mickelson thinks he will win not one, but two U.S. Opens before he retires
May 25, 2014 by
If there is one thing that sums up Phil Mickelson, it wouldn’t be his long drives or his short game, nor would it be his backward flop shots or his multiple green jackets. The thing that Phil Mickelson has never lacked is confidence. Mickelson has always known he was a very, very good golfer, and […]
Phil Mickelson misses another cut, calls himself mentally ‘soft’
May 10, 2014 by
To say 2014 has been a struggle for Phil Mickelson might be as big an understatement as saying the guy normally has an decent short game. Not since 2003 have we seen Phil struggle like this, missing his second cut in his last three starts on Friday at the Players Championship. In Phil’s last seven […]
