Breaking Down Phil Mickelson’s Best Chances to Capture Career Grand Slam

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Published: July 23, 2013

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Phil Mickelson won the major championship few thought he ever would on Sunday. Now all he lacks is the title he most covets to complete a rare career Grand Slam.

In one of the shining moments of his stellar career, Mickelson birdied four of the final six holes Sunday at Muirfield to win his first career British Open. That was the fifth major triumph of his career and leaves the U.S. Open as the only missing major on Lefty’s lofty resume.

Only five golfers—Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen—have won all four majors in their careers.



Without a doubt, joining that elite list would elevate Mickelson to new heights and secure his position as one of the best ever in golf’s long and storied history.

That’s a fact not lost on Mickelson.

“That’s the sign of the complete great player,” Mickelson said to The Telegraph in the wake of his Open Championship triumph. “I think there are five players who have done that and those five players are the greats of the game. You look at them in a different light.”

At 43 years old, Phil has plenty of time to win the U.S. Open, an event he has finished second in a record six times, including last month at Merion Golf Club after holding the 54-hole lead.

That said, Father Time can be a temperamental fellow, and it's likely Phil’s realistic window for winning the U.S. Open is four, maybe five, years.

Phil’s first pass at golf immortality will come at Pinehurst Resort's No. 2 Course next June. It will also be his best chance to accomplish the feat, considering the U.S. Open host courses that will follow the next four years.



Mickelson nearly won his first major championship at Pinehurst in 1999 in what was one of the most memorable U.S. Opens ever. The late, great Payne Stewart drained a long pa...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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