Phil Mickelson's Life
Golfer, Phil Mickelson was born on 16 June 1970 in San Diego, California. He studied psychology at Arizona State University.
After a highly impressive record as a junior and an amateur, Phil Mickelson turned pro as a golfer in 1992 and within a year gained USPGA tour wins in the Buick Open and the International.
Famous for being a 'lefty', Mickelson is actually right-handed in everything except golf.
Phil Mickelson has a fantastic short game with exceptional touch and is particularly strong in the majors.
In the twelve US majors before 2005 Phil Mickelson reached the top 3 an incredible seven times and won the 2004 US Masters. After a poor 2003, in 2004 Mickelson finished in the top 10 in all four majors. The only other player to do so was Ernie Els.
Phil Mickelson was rather oddly paired with Tiger Woods in the 2004 Ryder Cup. The Tiger Woods biography reveals more about their relationship.
An important element in Phil Mickelson's success has been his caddie, 'Bones' aka Jim Mackay. He has been with Phil Mickelson since 1992.
In August 2005 Mickelson won the USPGA to add another major to the 2004 US Masters. Strangely before the USPGA Mickelson's performances in the majors in 2005 had been relatively poor, in spite of having sufficient form to win three times on the PGA Tour.
In 2006 Mickelson won the 70th Masters by two shots at Augusta.
With that victory, Mickelson overtook Vijay Singh on the PGA Tour wins list.
In June 2006, Phil Mickelson had the chance to join Tiger Woods and Ben Hogan as the only players to win three consecutive major professional golf tournaments, but ended the US Open with a double bogey and lost his opportunity to Geoff Ogilvy. Instead, Mickelson was runner-up at the U.S. Open for the fourth time.
April 2006 News has an account of Mickelson's accomplishments at the BellSouth Classic - the event before the Masters.
In February 2007, Phil Mickelson won his third Pebble Beach National Pro-Am title, in so doing he became only the fourth player in US golf tour history to win over $40m in career earnings.
In 2007, Phil Mickelson, who had worked with Rick Smith for most of his golfing career, decided to use Tiger Woods's former coach Butch Harmon instead.
In September 2007, Mickelson won his 32nd PGA Tour title, the Deutsche Bank Championship.
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