Two thumbs up to that!!!
Posted on 05/23/2021 4:34:37 PM PDT by kiryandil
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — With a victory at the P.G.A. Championship on Sunday, Phil Mickelson, who will turn 51 next month, became the oldest golfer to win a major championship. The oldest previously was Julius Boros, who was 48 when he won the 1968 P.G.A. Championship.
Mickelson shot six under par for the tournament, finishing two strokes ahead of the runners-up, Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen.
It was Mickelson’s sixth major title, something only 14 male golfers have achieved. Mickelson was the seventh to reach that total since 1964. Mickelson has won the Masters tournament three times and was the British Open champion in 2013. Sunday’s victory was his second P.G.A. Championship title. He has finished second at the United States Open six times.
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She ain’t half bad!😎
You’re welcome
Great to see Phil win with unmasked fans, no social distancing, and no excuses. May the trend continue for all sports.
Two thumbs up to that!!!
LOL
Bill Cunningham was talking about Phil’s win...I was watching the COTA NASCAR race...crazy race....
Good for him.
I like it. Old ASU grad.
My wife & I happened to sit across the aisle from Phil $ his wife at the Chili’s by Sawgrass in 1997 or 1998. It was the week before TPC, middle of afternoon with virtually no one around.
He & wife were kind, gracious and signed a napkin our daughter still has all these years later.
A real class act.
Well that’s just racist! /s
That looks very expensive.
PGA got a post-COVID gift in Lefty winning.
It LOOKED like a major. It was so gratifying to watch him win. Watched on Sat and Sun.
I have to believe the ratings were thru the roof. Won’t be long before the woke crowd ruins the PGA.
Which is why he is so unlikeable.
It was kind of weird.
He all but leveled an accusation that "someones" were trying to tag his recently operated-on knee.
It sounded like paranoia - but then I got to thinking. There's BIG money in sports betting. If you can put a thumb on the scale and get away with it, why not?
Koepka remarked on the large crowds that he and his group were having to push through.
There's also an element of post-covid thinking - people are still not used to getting up close and personal with large groups of people.
Here is the interview that I watched:
Koepka post-round interview [round 4 2021 PGA Championship, 5:37 long]
Heard that. Even Phil said it was unnerving, like Duval at the Open years ago. I'm not in favor of the mass hysteria, lots of kooks out there.
1. It was a difficult course - witness how many top players did so poorly - with some of the worst hazard conditions - tall grasses in among sand along some fringes to most often narrow fairways, some high cross winds and some high head winds, though minus the hazard of many tall trees along the fairways.
2. Phil played better on the fairways than I have seen him play in long time.
3. Phil’s short game at the greens is usually pretty good and having seemed to conquer his fairway problems this time it gave his short game and his ability to scramble in tough situations a boost to success.
4. Given all I just said, and particularly conditions on the course, what Phil had a lot of, and had more than many other players, is years of experience playing in tough conditions.
Yes, Phil also won because Brooks Koepka made too many mistakes. That’s how you often win in Golf - making fewer mistakes than the next best player on the last day of the tournament.
I have laughed at many of Phil’s “crazy” and often memorable fairway misses in the past, but it was really great watching him do so well yesterday. He not only conquered his fairway game, I think he conquered his mental game as well.
It's like someone holding your head in a waterbarrel till you're gasping for breath:
12 - 4 13 - 1 14 - 3 15 - 13 16 - 18 17 - 2 18 - 8
Head in the barrel for 3 holes. Let you come up for air on 15 and 16, then back in the barrel for the finish.
Phil didn't "go off on any adventures" on the back, as he sometimes does.
I was happy for him and the family.
I like it when sports stars just play their sports. A few years ago, Phil got creamed by the media when he said that he was considering moving to Florida to avoid the ridiculous taxes in California. Many players just moved without saying anything. Phil learned his lesson.
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