Phil Mickelson has been making sports history his entire life, ever since he burst on the scene as an amateur golfer while attending Arizona State University, winning three NCAA individual championships, three Haskins awards as the outstanding collegiate golfer, while also leading the Sun Devils to the NCAA team title in 1990. He won 16 collegiate tournaments and was a four-time All-American while at Arizona State.
He also won the 1990 United States Amateur Championship, the 1991 Northern Telcom Open as an amateur, and was low amateur at the 1992 Masters Tournament.
He becomes only the fourth player to win a PGA Tour event in four decades joining Sam Snead, Raymond Floyd, and Davis Love III.
He has been one of the most successful professional golfers in the history of the sport, having now tied Walter Hagen with 45 wins on the PGA Tour and winning six major championships.
So it should come as no surprise to anyone who follows professional golf, that Phil would put on a show for the ages in capturing his second PGA Championship, sixth Major Championship, 45th PGA Tour event, and at the age of 50 years,11 months, and 7 days, becomes the oldest major winner in PGA Tour history, and the first player to win major after age 50.
He has been making history, defying nature, and breaking records his entire career.
And, having accepted a special exemption into the 2021 United States Open Championship at Torrey Pines, in his hometown of San Diego, California, Phil becomes the prohibited favorite in next month’s Open to win the one tournament missing from his stellar resume, which will complete the mythical Grand Slam of Golf, cementing his place in Golf immortality.
With Tiger Woods’s latest injury and absence from tournament golf, Phil becomes the sentimental favorite and poster boy for golf fans around the world.
I had a chance to join Phil’s final interview after this year’s Championship.
Please listen here.
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