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Why Mickelson Will Never Win Another Major
Vanity | August 19, 2006 | Doc Savage

Posted on 08/19/2006 5:31:36 PM PDT by Doc Savage

Allow me a small amount of vanity bandwidth to explain why Phil will never win another Major Championship. Obesity.

When he turned pro out of college he was slim, trim and flexible. His talent was amazing.

Yes he has won twenty-odd tournaments, and yes he did win two Masters, but to see him striding the fairways of Medinah is to painfully watch a middle-aged couch-potato waddle slowly down the fairway as his ponderous breasts sag through his sweat-soaked shirt. He needs a Cosmo Kramer Bro!

His face is bloated almost beyond recognition to his rookie year. His middle is a heaving gelatinous mass of fat sweltering in his girth.

You can actually hear his labored breathing during the post-round interview. This is a guy who needs to lose some serious weight if he ever wants to contend again.

Now I like Phil. I loved watching the "old" Phil play. But unless he reduces now I believe he will not be a major factor again. Naturally I assume many of you disagree. But I don't believe you can disagree with the premise that he needs to lose a lot weight.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: breasts; bro; fat; golf; mansierre; mickelson; obesity; porky
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1 posted on 08/19/2006 5:31:37 PM PDT by Doc Savage
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John Daley did not do too bad as a fat drunk.


2 posted on 08/19/2006 5:32:40 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Doc Savage

Craig Stadler?


3 posted on 08/19/2006 5:32:56 PM PDT by chasio649
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Two words. Craig Stadler.

Go Lefty!


4 posted on 08/19/2006 5:33:07 PM PDT by ritewingwarrior (Where does free speech end, and sedition begin?)
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To: chasio649

haha you beat me to it.


5 posted on 08/19/2006 5:33:23 PM PDT by ritewingwarrior (Where does free speech end, and sedition begin?)
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To: Doc Savage

The year he won the Master's he lost a lot of weight. Too bad he gained it back.

Now Tiger. That guy is in world class athlete type shape.


6 posted on 08/19/2006 5:33:37 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo ("Give a man a fish, make him a Democrat. Teach a man to fish, make him a Republican.")
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To: Doc Savage
This is a guy who needs to lose some serious weight if he ever wants to contend again.

And this is news because....?

7 posted on 08/19/2006 5:35:38 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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so it was philly's stomach's fault that he hit driver on the eighteenth at winged foot.


8 posted on 08/19/2006 5:38:26 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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So tell Phil that........

What is it that you are proposing? A PGA rule about the weight of players? State laws of weight limitations on golf courses?

If he is a contender he's a contender, if he's not, it's no one's fault but his own. And no one else's business.


9 posted on 08/19/2006 5:40:18 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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In his rookie year he was called "Fat Jack".

10 posted on 08/19/2006 5:41:05 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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Surely, Phil feels keenly how unfair it is that the greatest golfer of all time showed up just after Phil did. Billy Casper won 51 tournaments, 7 of them majors, despite a physique remarkably similar to Phil. Indeed, Nicklaus was quite chunky his first ten years on tour.

So, one of these days, crazy Phil finally will snap and go after Tiger with his driver--the only question is whether he uses his hook or fade driver. Tiger will elude him easily, of course, because, as you pointed out, Phil is out of shape.

One can only hope that something will intervene to prevent that final catastrophe and indignity for poor Lefty.

11 posted on 08/19/2006 5:43:20 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God is, and (2) God is good?)
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It's not the spare tire that will insure he never wins another major, it's the concrete between his ears.

He golfs the ball, he doesn't play golf. He seemed to have figured it out a couple of years ago, but he's gone back to his old ways, overswinging with the driver and hoping he can live with the results.

Just another Tom Weiskopf, talent without a capacity for strategic thought.
12 posted on 08/19/2006 5:45:53 PM PDT by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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Mickelson is talented, and ranked very high in the PGA standings. However, I agree, the guy needs to lose at least 25 lbs.. The majority of golfers you see out there today, that are on the leader board in major tournaments, appear to be in good shape. Tiger Woods is definitely in some sort of weight training program ... he's buffed out and looks like a well conditioned athlete. Being married to a Swedish model, in addition to all the walking he does, I'm sure plays a role.
13 posted on 08/19/2006 5:46:52 PM PDT by BluH2o
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I knew you guys would come out of the closet. We'll see. I hope he does win, but I think I'm right on this. Daly won the PGA at Crooked stick. If you go back and actually look a photos from the tournament he has some weird hair but was NOT obese at that point. A big boy, but not obese.
I will grant you that he was obese when he won the Open Championship, but he has NOT seriously contened SINCE!

Stadler should have died years ago but there is always an exception. Actually Kevin may beat him to the grave!

Let's watch Lefty next year. If he hasn't slimmed down I predict he never wins another major. The 84 Lumber Special maybe, but he's tasted the last Major of his career.


14 posted on 08/19/2006 5:47:17 PM PDT by Doc Savage (Bueller?....Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?...Pelosi?...Pelosi?...Pelosi?...)
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To: Gabz

Tim Herron is up on the leader board tonight and he a bit portly. Phil's game hasn't suffered from it - he is playing some good golf now.


15 posted on 08/19/2006 5:51:56 PM PDT by sjm_888
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Did he gain all of this weight since this year's Masters or last year's PGA, because I believe he won both of them.


16 posted on 08/19/2006 6:02:55 PM PDT by GoDuke
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You realize that if he does win another one, you will look foolish.

I assume you were one of those who said he couldn't win "the big one?"


17 posted on 08/19/2006 6:04:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death)
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LOL

I don't think his weight is as big an issue as everyone makes it out to be.


18 posted on 08/19/2006 6:05:54 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - I BEEEEEEELLLLLLIIEEEEVVVEEEEEEE in the conspiracy of the flying knee....)
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For Phil do do as well as he has is a great accomplishment. Most golf courses favor the right hander.


19 posted on 08/19/2006 6:08:24 PM PDT by socal_parrot
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Funny read..


20 posted on 08/19/2006 6:49:18 PM PDT by skaterboy
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