Posted: 04/09/12
In the 2010 Masters Tournament, Phil Mickelson’s risk-reward game paid off in the form of a third green jacket when he hit a laser shot from the pine straw at No. 13. Two years later, his aggression paid zero ...
Posted: 04/09/12
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Posted: 04/09/12
Though the patrons applauded, Tiger Woods walked off the 18th green Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club with many empty chairs staring back at him. It was still early in the final round of the Masters Tournament. Phil Mickelson ...
Posted: 04/08/12
While other patrons were about to watch Phil Mickelson tee off at the Masters Tournament on Sunday, Sam Felton made a bee-line for Augusta National Golf Club’s exit gates. He had the chance to see his favorite player up ...
Posted: 04/08/12
Bubba Watson put on a show to someone else’s soundtrack Saturday in the third round of the Masters Tournament. The group in front of him included Matt Kuchar, who for a time led the field and drew cheers for three ...
Posted: 04/08/12
Click. Phil Mickelson just flipped the switch. After 45 holes of not seeing his name on the ever-changing leaderboards around Augusta National, the three-time Masters champ came out of nowhere Saturday like a sonic boom. ...
Posted: 04/08/12
After 45 holes of not seeing his name on the ever-changing leaderboards around Augusta National, the three-time Masters champ appeared out of nowhere Saturday like a sonic boom. Front Headline (Test): ...
Posted: 04/08/12
Bubba Watson put on a show to someone else’s soundtrack Saturday in the third round of the Masters Tournament. The group in front of him included Matt Kuchar, who for a time led the field and drew cheers for three ...
Posted: 04/07/12
Peter Hanson is looking to deliver Sweden its first green jacket. Hanson fashioned a third-round 65 to take the Masters Tournament lead at 9-under through three rounds, one ahead of a fist-pumping Phil Mickelson and two ahead of South ...
Posted: 04/07/12
Phil Mickelson veered off the ninth fairway Friday for a brief moment as he was walking toward his drive. Mickelson gave out four hugs, a kiss on the cheek, and after a few words moved on down the fairway. Over ...
Posted: 04/06/12
Phil Mickelson hopes the end of his round Thursday leads to more good things heading into today’s second round. After a triple-bogey debacle at No. 10, Mickelson found a rhythm, saving his Thursday round with three birdies over the final ...
Posted: 04/06/12
Phil Mickelson hopes the end of his round Thursday leads to more good things heading into today’s second round. After a triple-bogey debacle at No. 10, Mickelson found a rhythm, saving his Thursday round with three birdies over the final ...
Posted: 04/05/12
By Garry Smits Morris News Service It was three-time Masters Tournament champion Phil Mickelson who gave the command order after several practice sessions on an Augusta National Golf Club course that has absorbed several inches of rain recently. ...
Posted: 04/04/12
Will the three-year streak of different players winning major championships continue at this week’s Masters Tournament? Or will a familiar face such as Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson or Rory McIlroy “get the W,” as Woods likes to say, and add ...
Posted: 04/05/12
The Par-3 Contest has a new curse: bad weather. No Par-3 winner has ever won the Masters Tournament in the same year. On Wednesday, a steamy afternoon turned into dark skies and lightning at 3 p.m., then rain just ...
Posted: 04/04/12
Will the three-year streak of different players winning major championships continue at this week’s Masters Tournament? Or will a familiar face such as Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson or Rory McIlroy “get the W,” as Woods likes to say, and add ...
Posted: 04/03/12
Phil Mickelson might have started himself a new tradition Tuesday at Augusta National Golf Club. Should the 41-year-old be seen celebrating his fourth Masters Tournament victory Sunday, he can say the momentum started by winning a glass of lemonade ...
Posted: 04/03/12
Phil Mickelson might have started himself a new tradition Tuesday at Augusta National Golf Club. Should the 41-year-old be seen celebrating his fourth Masters Tournament victory Sunday, he can say the momentum started by winning a glass of lemonade Tuesday. ...
Posted: 04/03/12
Phil Mickelson is looking forward to sharing his secret on breaking through and winning a major tournament. In late 2003, Dave Pelz spoke with Mickelson and gave him some insight. Mickelson went on to win his first of four majors, ...
Posted: 04/03/12
Charl Schwartzel didn’t realize he closed the 2011 Masters Tournament with four consecutive birdies. He had bigger things on his mind. “When that putt disappeared on 18, honestly the last thing that went through my mind is that I made ...
Posted: 04/03/12
In view of the abundance of elite golfers in the game today, the headline in Sports Illustrated’s Masters Tournament preview was particularly jarring. “Two Man Game: Tiger Woods versus Rory McIlroy is the only story in golf.” Really? ...
Posted: 04/03/12
In the middle of a widespread epidemic of elite golf, the headline in Sports Illustrated’s Masters Tournament preview was particularly jarring. “Two Man Game: Tiger Woods versus Rory McIlroy is the only story in golf.” Really? ...
Posted: 04/02/12
At the entrance to the Masters Tournament practice facility, parents line up against a fence, just feet away from the golfers as they come and go. Their kids, however, get much closer. Youngsters are allowed to get autographs from ...
Posted: 04/02/12
At the entrance to the Masters Tournament practice facility, parents line up against a fence, just feet away from the golfers as they come and go. Their kids, however, get much closer. Youngsters are allowed to get autographs from ...
Posted: 04/02/12
FRIENDLY ROUND: The man believed to be the oldest rookie in Masters Tournament history is making up for lost time. Randal Lewis, 54, played a spur-of-the-moment practice round with three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson last week and has another lined ...
Posted: 04/02/12
For the first time in three seasons, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will enter the Masters Tournament with victories in the first three months of the PGA Tour. History suggest that matters for America’s two leading players. Woods has won ...
Posted: 03/22/12
After 19 Masters Tournaments, Phil Mickelson still doesn’t feel like he knows Augusta National Golf Club’s greens well enough. And he’s won three green jackets. “I wouldn’t say that I feel comfortable on those greens,” he said. “I think ...
Posted: 04/11/11
The traditional Sunday roars echoed through the pines at Augusta National Golf Club -- perhaps at an unprecedented rate -- for the final round at the Masters Tournament. In a break from tradition, few were for Phil Mickelson. The three-time Masters winner typically lurks near the top of the Sunday leaderboard, but he posted a quiet 2-over-par 74, however, to finish tied for 27th at 1-under.
Posted: 04/10/11
Phil Mickelson isn't one for concession speeches, and he wasn't ready to concede this Masters Tournament after signing his scorecard Saturday. The defending champion didn't do himself any favors Saturday, but few players in the field have put together long strings of birdies the way Mickelson has in the past -- and he'll aim for one of those hot streaks in today's final round.
Posted: 04/10/11
After his birdie putt on No. 15 found the bottom of the cup, Sophia Mickelson and Jennifer Mackay started their birdie dance. There simply weren't enough birdie dances in a day to vault Mickelson back into the thick of his Masters Tournament defense, but just the presence of his family walking among the pines was welcome.
Posted: 04/09/11
Phil Mickelson walked off the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club on Friday with the confidence and swagger of a man ready to win his fourth green jacket. The fact that he was eight strokes behind leader Rory McIlroy at the time and tied for 20th after a mediocre round of even-par 72 with four birdies and four bogeys didn't seem to phase him.
Posted: 04/08/11
Phil Mickelson walked off the 18th hole at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday and headed straight to the driving range. He had just made his only bogey of the day, giving him a 2-under-par 70. The three-time and defending Masters Tournament champion finished his first round five shots off the lead.
Posted: 04/07/11
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson did plenty of talking Tuesday. They spent Wednesday walking. After making appearances in front of a microphone earlier in the week, the two Masters champions hit the course Wednesday, playing in front of patrons at Augusta National Golf Club for the first time this week.
Posted: 04/06/11
There's been a changing of the guard at Augusta National Golf Club, but it's not what everyone thinks. With all eyes on a host of young players poised to supplant Tiger Woods as the next generation of green-jacketed superstar, an older gent has usurped the throne as Augusta's reigning untouchable. This is Phil Mickelson's tournament now. Check the betting line if you doubt that.
Posted: 04/06/11
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson did plenty of talking Tuesday. They spent their Wednesday's doing more of the walking.
Posted: 04/05/11
Phil Mickelson is nothing if not a strategist. He's always thinking ahead of terms of what will serve him best in competition and Tuesday was another example.
Posted: 04/05/11
It's all about Phil. That would be defending champion Phil Mickelson, the hottest player on the planet and the favorite to win his fourth green jacket in this week's 75th Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/04/11
HUMBLE, Texas --- Phil Mickelson, the defending champion at the Masters Tournament, outdueled Scott Verplank on Sunday to win the Houston Open by three shots, his first victory since earning his third green jacket last April.
Posted: 04/03/11
HUMBLE, Texas - Phil Mickelson outdueled Scott Verplank today to win the Houston Open, his first victory since last year's Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/01/11
The defining shot of the 2010 Masters Tournament was classic Phil Mickelson -- a risk ultimately yielding reward in the form of a third green jacket. His blast from the pines on the 13th hole Sunday also brought perhaps the defining statement of Mickelson's career.
Posted: 04/01/11
If the strength of a relationship is measured by its darkest moments, Phil Mickelson and Jim "Bones" Mackay's friendship was built to last. The man everyone calls Bones is as much a friend as he is an employee for Mickelson. For almost 19 years, theirs has been a masterful partnership.
Posted: 04/01/11
In the midst of the family's toughest time, Phil Mickelson's 2010 Masters triumph provided a brief moment to exhale. The 11 months before were all about coping with cancer. The seven months after it, arthritis provided a new obstacle. For one moment in the middle, however, the Masters intervened.
Posted: 04/01/11
Not many Masters Tournament champions refer to third-round shots as the key to their victory. Phil Mickelson, who seldom does things the conventional way, will think back on a three-hole, third-round run as the spark that ignited his 2010 victory.
Posted: 04/01/11
Phil Mickelson turned 40 the day before the 2010 U.S. Open. With another green jacket in hand and his game in command, he was looking forward to erasing his most glaring career blemish. The sudden onset of psoriatic arthritis in the weeks before the championship robbed him of his chance.
Posted: 03/25/11
Think you know everything about Masters champion Phil Mickelson and his caddie, Jim "Bones" Mackay?
Posted: 02/16/11
The Masters Tournament winners assembled for the annual Champions Dinner can breathe both a sigh of relief and a groan of disappointment over Phil Mickelson's menu selection.
Posted: 04/14/10
The U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the next leg of a Grand Slam that only Phil Mickelson can win this year, brings back mixed memories. In his professional debut there in 1992, Mickelson opened with 68 and was only two shots out of the lead.
Posted: 04/12/10
Phil Mickelson had plenty of thrills left in his game after all. The chill bumps came later during an embrace with his wife, Amy, who is battling breast cancer and made a rare appearance to watch her husband win the 74th Masters Tournament and his third green jacket.
Posted: 04/12/10
Phil Mickelson finished one shot off the lead in the Masters Tournament in the third round with a series of sensational and improbable shots.
Posted: 04/12/10
Phil Mickelson has been a different kind of relaxed this week at the Masters Tournament. He's taken his youngest daughter to coffee shops to play chess and stayed up past midnight watching movies with his family.
Posted: 04/12/10
They'll name a bridge for this one.
Posted: 04/12/10
If anyone was suited to offer words of encouragement to Lee Westwood on Sunday after he lost the final-round lead at the Masters, it was the man who usurped him, Phil Mickelson.
Posted: 04/11/10
Even sweeter than Phil Mickelson slipping into another green jacket was seeing his wife waiting for him behind the 18th green Sunday at Augusta National with tears streaming down her face.
Posted: 04/11/10
He had played a 510-yard par-5 as though it were half that distance, holed out from 141 yards on the following hole and become the third player in a tournament dating to 1934 to make back-to-back eagles.
Posted: 04/11/10
Phil Mickelson spoke to the media after winning his third green jacket.
Posted: 04/10/10
There's nothing like being in contention on the weekend at Augusta National Golf Club, Phil Mickelson said. That's right where the two-time Masters Tournament winner finds himself today.
Posted: 04/10/10
Phil Mickelson shot five under par for the third round, and spoke to the media about the day.
Posted: 04/10/10
Lee Westwood heard the ground-shaking roars for just about everyone but him on a Saturday that sounded an awful lot like Sunday at the Masters.
Posted: 04/10/10
In the span of six swings and a thousand or so yards Saturday, Mickelson turned this Masters on its head.
Posted: 04/09/10
Phil Mickelson picked a good time to straighten out his struggles.
Posted: 04/07/10
Phil Mickelson has been far from perfect this season.
Posted: 04/06/10
Phil Mickelson spoke to the press Tuesday afternoon at Augusta National.
Posted: 04/02/10
Phil Mickelson isn't one to dwell on past performance as prelude for what's next. Erasing him from the list of Masters Tournament favorites because he hasn't won entering April isn't necessarily prudent.
Posted: 04/13/09
Where Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson went, the gallery followed.
Posted: 04/13/09
Yawns had taken the place of roars the past two years. On Sunday, the Masters Tournament brought its old excitement back.
Posted: 04/13/09
Jim "Bones" Mackay has carried the bag in three major victories, but Sunday's experience shined even in a gallant losing effort by his employer, Phil Mickelson.
Posted: 04/12/09
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods put on a pretty good show for much of Sunday's final round at the Masters.
Posted: 04/12/09
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods brought back the roars on a Sunday at Augusta National.
Posted: 04/12/09
Phil Mickelson got off the first pump of his enticing head-to-head duel with Tiger Woods, surging into contention in the final round of the Masters.
Posted: 04/11/09
Masters Tournament patrons witnessed the complete Phil Mickelson on Friday.
Posted: 04/09/09
Here are the writers' picks.
Posted: 04/08/09
Playing alongside an amateur making his Masters Tournament debut can make one think about his first time at Augusta National Golf Club.
Posted: 04/07/09
He was on the practice range at first light, only his coach and caddie at his side. Then it was off to the putting green, where he kept pressing an Augusta National official for permission to start his practice round before the course was open.
Posted: 04/05/09
Phil Mickelson has used two drivers to win a Masters and zero drivers to lose a U.S. Open. This year he'll opt for one driver with a grip-it-and-rip-it strategy.
Posted: 04/09/08
Contrary to popular belief, Tiger Woods hasn't already won the 2008 Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/09/08
When Augusta National Golf Club begins its new initiative Thursday to allow some youngsters to attend tournament rounds free, no one will be more pleased than Phil Mickelson.
Posted: 04/06/08
It was just a casual exchange, but it made Phil Mickelson look up from the row of autograph seekers at Doral Golf Resort & Spa.
Posted: 04/08/07
Watching Phil Mickelson labor at this Masters Tournament tells a story.
Posted: 04/07/07
Doubt began to enter Phil Mickelson's mind as he rifled through the undergrowth along the 11th fairway, searching for another one of his wayward tee shots.
Posted: 04/07/07
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Two of the world's best golfers showed hints of weekend rallies early in third round of the Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/06/07
Phil Mickelson usually does his best to avoid moments like the one that confronted him seven holes into Thursday's opening round of the Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/04/07
The double-driver strategy will be back in play for Phil Mickelson at the Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/03/07
Phil Mickelson spoke with reporters Monday at Augusta National Golf Club on the subject of defending his Masters title. The following transcript of his remarks was provided by Augusta National.
Posted: 04/03/07
It's become a common sight at the Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/02/07
Phil Mickelson has done a lot of things in his career at Augusta National Golf Club, but Sunday marked the first time he's carded a hole-in-one - and still lost money.
Posted: 04/01/07
Let's review some of the highlights of the 2006 Phil Mickelson calendar.
Posted: 04/01/07
The whispers about Phil Mickelson are hard to believe.
Posted: 04/01/07
Nothing seemed to come easy for Phil Mickelson in major championships. He didn't win one in his first 46 starts, then needed to birdie the 72nd hole to win both his first (the 2004 Masters Tournament) and his second (the 2005 PGA Championship).
Posted: 02/14/07
Phil Mickelson, the 2004 and 2006 Masters Tournament champion, spoke with reporters Wednesday about the upcoming tournament. Here is the full transcript:
Posted: 04/10/06
The man who couldn't win major championships is stockpiling them quicker than anyone else in the game.
Posted: 04/10/06
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Phil Mickelson is a Masters champion again, and now he's making it look easy.
Posted: 04/10/06
Augusta green will enhance any golfer's complexion. It already had for Phil Mickelson.
Posted: 04/10/06
AUGUSTA, Ga. - There were so many green jackets chasing Phil Mickelson for a time on the back nine at the Masters that the leaderboard looked more like the champions locker room.
Posted: 04/10/06
Jack Nicklaus' 1986 Masters Tournament victory spawned the sale of oversized putters.
Posted: 04/10/06
AUGUSTA, Ga. - All those suckers who took out a second mortgage to buy one of those big-as-cabbage-headed drivers are about to get socked by a double whammy.
Posted: 04/10/06
No two golfers carry the same clubs, and the rules allow a maximum of 14. This is what Phil Mickelson carried to win his second Masters tournament in three years.
Posted: 04/10/06
Phil Mickelson spent his Sunday morning moving into his favorite spot of late: the lead of a professional golf tournament.
Posted: 04/09/06
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Phil Mickelson joked recently how he longed to walk up the 18th fairway in the final round of a major championship knowing he was going to win.
Posted: 04/09/06
Phil Mickelson spent his Sunday morning moving into his favorite spot of late.
Posted: 04/09/06
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Phil Mickelson broke through at the Masters two years ago by winning his first green jacket. Now, he's playing as if he wants another one.
Posted: 04/09/06
Phil Mickelson didn't make a single par Saturday to start his third round of the Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/09/06
Phil Mickelson leads by three shots with four holes to play in the 70th Masters Tournament, closing in on his second green jacket.
Posted: 04/08/06
If Phil Mickelson doesn't watch out, he just might set golf back 30 years.
Posted: 04/07/06
It wasn't quite the magic he performed last week at the BellSouth Classic, but Phil Mickelson wasn't complaining about his 2-under-par 70 in Thursday's first round at the Masters Tournament.
Posted: 04/06/06
Doug Ferguson, Associated Press: Tim Herron. Because this Masters is all about size.
Posted: 04/05/06
Phil Mickelson gets few working Saturdays where he can sleep in or watch the morning cartoons with his kids.
Posted: 04/05/06
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- All eyes will be on Phil Mickelson's bag this week. Mickelson will carry two drivers, one to play draws and the other to hit cut shots, as he attempts to win his second Masters tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.
Posted: 04/05/06
Phil Mickelson will get some help off the tee this week from his friends DRAW and FADE.
Posted: 04/03/06
DULUTH, Ga. - Pencil in Phil Mickelson for a top-10 finish at the Masters Tournament this week.
Posted: 04/02/06
There are a couple of ways you can analyze Phil Mickelson's 2005 PGA Championship victory.
