Phil Mickelson

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Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson
Personnel
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Nickname: Lefty (because he plays left-handed) or Phil the Thrill (because he often gets into problems because of his aggressive game, from which he often frees himself with his excellent short game)
Career data
Professional since: 1992
Current tour: PGA TOUR
Tournament wins: 52
Major wins : 5 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013)
Awards: World Golf Hall of Fame (2012)

Philip Alfred Mickelson (born June 16, 1970 in San Diego , California ) is a left-handed American professional golfer of the PGA TOUR .

Life / career

His best season so far was 2004, when he won his first major tournament with the US Masters and made it into the top 10 in the three other majors . With the Masters win, he was able to lose the 'title' that many had previously attributed to him, 'best golfer without a major win'. At the 2005 PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club , he celebrated his second victory in a major tournament. At the US Masters 2006 Mickelson again won the coveted Green Jacket and is now one of 16 players who have won what is probably the most important major tournament in golf more than once. In addition, he managed to achieve a so-called back-to-back major victory, since the US Masters always follows the PGA Championship of the previous year. Mickelson achieved another special feature with a back-to-back victory on the PGA Tour compared to the previous week. He previously won the Bell South Classic in Duluth , Georgia by 13 strokes. With the victory in The PLAYERS Championship , which is considered the fifth major among the players , he achieved one of the greatest successes of his career in addition to his three major victories up to then. In 2010, he won The Masters for the third time. During the year, Tiger Woods' lead as No. 1 in the world rankings melted to a minimum. Mickelson had the chance to replace Woods at the top in twelve tournaments, but could not use a single one and was instead pushed to third place by Lee Westwood in October 2010 . In 2012, Phil Mickelson was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame . As the first player ever, he managed to win the Scottish Open in 2013 and the Open Championship the following week .

Since 1994 he has played in every Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup team in the USA, up to now eleven and ten participations respectively (as of 2015). He is the only US record player in Ryder Cup history. Mickelson enjoys great popularity with the audience, which is due to his spectacular style of play, but also to his personable personality. With an income of 49.5 million euros in 2008, he was the highest-earning athlete behind Tiger Woods .

Phil Mickelson is married to Amy, nee McBride, and has three children: Amanda, Sophia and Evan.

The game

Like his professional colleague Mike Weir , he is a right-handed player who golfs left-handed. His short game is considered outstanding, which earned him the nickname "Wedge Wizard" - the newer PGA statistics do not fully reflect this characteristic. B. Scrambling (saved pars after missing greens) or sand saves (saved pars after bunker hits) are good, but not outstanding.

"Statistically verifiable", Mickelson is one of the best putters on the PGA Tour - in the 2013 season he was ranked 6th (out of 180) in the "Strokes Gained" statistics. It is noteworthy that after a rather weak year with the putter in 2011, he successfully changed the putt grip in the following season (to the "claw grip" - in his case the left hand does not enclose the grip of the putter, but the outstretched pointing and hand grip Middle fingers lie on the same). In 2013 Mickelson returned to the conventional grip with constant success, but it was observed that he returned to the claw grip within one round at The Barclay's. When putting, he shows one of the few visually striking peculiarities of his otherwise very school-like game: After addressing the ball, he "tilts" the club in the direction of stroke immediately before the back swing.

His game with the driver is more problematic: Despite a rather mediocre length of his drives (on average 292.4 yards - 70th place) he hit only 58.01% of the fairways in 2014, which is 140th place on the PGA Tour.

PGA TOUR wins (44)

Major championships are in bold !

Other tournament victories

Results in major championships

competition 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
The Masters DNP T46 LA DNP T34 DNP T7 3 CUT T12 T6 T7 3 3 3 1
US Open T29 LA T55 LA CUT DNP T47 T4 T94 T43 T10 2 T16 T7 2 T55 2
The Open Championship DNP T73 DNP DNP CUT T40 T41 T24 79 CUT T11 T30 T66 T59 3
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP T6 3 CUT T8 T29 T34 T57 T9 2 T34 T23 T6
competition 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
The Masters 10 1 T24 T5 5 1 T27 T3 T54 CUT T2 CUT T22 T36 T18
PGA Championship 1 T16 T32 T7 73 T12 T19 T36 T72 2 T18 73 CUT CUT T71
US Open T33 T2 CUT T18 T2 T4 T54 T65 T2 T28 T64 CUT DNP T48 T52
The Open Championship T60 T22 CUT T19 DNP T48 T2 CUT 1 T23 T20 2 CUT T24 CUT

LA = best amateur
DNP = not taken part
CUT = cut not made
"T" split placement
Green background for victory
Yellow background for top 10.

Participation in team competitions

amateur

  • Walker Cup : 1989, 1991 (winner)
  • Eisenhower Trophy: 1990.

professional

  • Presidents Cup : 1994 (winner), 1996 (winner), 1998, 2000 (winner), 2003 (draw), 2005 (winner), 2007 (winner), 2009 (winner), 2011 (winner), 2013 (winner), 2015 (winner), 2017 (winner)
  • Ryder Cup : 1995, 1997, 1999 (winner), 2002, 2004 , 2006 , 2008 (winner), 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 (winner), 2018
  • Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1996 (winner)

See also

Web links

Commons : Phil Mickelson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

(all english)

personal data
SURNAME Mickelson, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mickelson, Philip Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American golfer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego, California