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Phil Mickelson
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Known to golf fans as "Lefty," Phil Mickelson has been one of the Professional Golf Association's most successful players since 1992. Mickelson was still an amateur when he won the PGA's Northern Telecom Open in 1991. He turned pro the next year and in 1996 he stepped into the spotlight by winning four tournaments, including the NEC World Series of Golf. That same year Tiger Woods turned pro, and the two began a competitive rivalry that has continued for many years. Quick to smile and willing to play recklessly aggressive shots with his big left-handed swing, Mickelson tends to attract boisterous galleries of fans. His annual failure to win one of golf's four major tournaments (with some calling him "the best player never to win a major") ended in April of 2004, when he won The Masters in Augusta, Georgia.
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Phil Mickelson is your 2006 Masters winner. There was no drama on 18, there was no big finish. The 18th was just a formality. Phil Mickelson bumrushed the field, or perhaps more accurately, let the field bumrush themselves, en route to an easy green jacket. more
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With the rivalry between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson the talk of the golf world, PinnacleSports.com has created betting options on the number of major championships won by each player this year. Although he'll be one of the favorites in the remaining majors, Phil Mickelson is favored to finish the year with only the Masters title at 4/9 odds. The odds that the world's top- ranked player will win two majors are at 11/5, while Mickelson is 16/1 to finish with three majors in '06, and a huge 175/1 long shot to capture the elusive Grand Slam. Meanwhile, PinnacleSports.com currently favors Woods finishing 2006 major-less at 2/3 odds. Tiger is 2/1 to capture one major championship, 8/1 to win two, and 35/1 to win the remaining three majors this year.
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Minutes away from winning his third major championship in a row and 450 yards from being halfway to the Grand Slam, Phil Mickelson had the U.S. Open title within his grasp. Up by a stroke with the 18th hole to play, Mickelson made a double bogey and let it all slip away.
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His caddie loosened the flag from the 18th pin as a symbol of victory Sunday at The Players Championship, and Phil Mickelson added a personal touch. After playing one of his tidiest rounds on one of the most intimidating golf courses, Mickelson signed his name at the bottom of the note and handed it to his new swing coach, Butch Harmon. Arms around each other's shoulders, they walked up the hill toward the sprawling clubhouse for the trophy presentation, another sign that Mickelson might be on the rise.
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Phil Mickelson is coming into the Match Play after an impressive win at the Northern Trust Open. He ... has a very good record at the match play of five Top-10's in eight times at the event. Pat Perez got a very nice fourth place at the Sony Open and has only broken the Top-25 once since then. It's a tough match up for Perez's first time at the event and he will most likely be taking an early flight home.
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