Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson | |
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Personnel | |
Nation: | 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)
- 1991 Nortel Telecom Open
- 1993 The International, Buick Invitational of California
- 1994 Mercedes Championships
- 1995 Nortel Telecom Open
- 1996 NEC World Series of Golf, GTE Byron Nelson Classic, Phoenix Open , Nortel Open
- 1997 Sprint International, Bay Hill Invitational Presented by Cooper Tires
- 1998 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am , Mercedes Championships
- 2000 The Tour Championship Presented by Southern Company, MasterCard Colonial, Buick Invitational, BellSouth Classic
- 2001 Canon Greater Hartford Open, Buick Invitational
- 2002 Canon Greater Hartford Open, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic
- 2004 The Masters Tournament , Bob Hope Chrysler Classic
- 2005 FBR Open , AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am , BellSouth Classic, PGA Championship
- 2006 BellSouth Classic, The Masters Tournament
- 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am , The PLAYERS Championship , Deutsche Bank Championship
- 2008 Northern Trust Open, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
- 2009 Northern Trust Open, WGC-CA Championship , Tour Championship
- 2010 The Masters Tournament
- 2011 Shell Houston Open
- 2012 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
- 2013 Phoenix Open , The Open Championship
- 2018 WGC-Mexico Championship
- 2019 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
Major championships are in bold !
Other tournament victories
- 1993 Tournoi Perrier Paris ( Challenge Tour )
- 1997 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Fred Couples and Tom Lehman )
- 2000 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Notah Begay III and Rocco Mediate )
- 2001 Tylenol Par-3 Shootout at Treetops Resort
- 2004 TELUS Skins Game, PGA Grand Slam of Golf
- 2007 HSBC Champions ( European Tour , Asian Tour , Sunshine Tour (golf) and PGA Tour of Australasia )
- 2009 WGC -HSBC Champions (European Tour, Asian Tour, Sunshine Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia and co-organized by the PGA Tour )
- 2013 Scottish Open (European Tour)
Results in major championships
competition | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
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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 |
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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
(all english)
- Player profile on the PGA Tour
- Player profile on the PGA European Tour
- Phil Mickelson at About.com
- Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)
- Phil Mickelson shows and justifies the "tipping" of his putter immediately before the shot
- The PGA Tour stats
- An article on Mickelson's various putter grips
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mickelson, Phil |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mickelson, Philip Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American golfer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego, California |