PGA Tour 2011: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson Leaving No Mark

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Published: March 27, 2011

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We might be witnessing the end of an era on the PGA Tour. Through 13 events, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, maybe the most dominant pair of players since Nicklaus and Palmer, have won exactly zero tournaments.

Mickelson has been doing better than Woods, to say the very least. In six events played, Mickelson has posted two top 10 finishes, including a second place finish. This is during the time of the year that he has historically owned.

Of his 38 wins on Tour, 15 of them have come before the end of February. That's 39.4 percent of his victories in the first two months of a nine month long season. If you go up to and include the Masters, which historically ends on the second Sunday in April, he has taken 25 of his 38 wins (65.8 percent) during the first third of the year.

Woods has been basically a non-factor on the course since the scandal that rocked the golf world began in November 2009.

Admittedly, Tiger was never one to play in a lot of tournaments, but he seems to have cut his schedule even more while he works on his swing.

In three events this year, Woods has a single top 10 finish at the WGC Cadillac Championship. He lost in the first round of the WGC Match Play, and was never a factor in the Farmer's Insurance Open. Interestingly, the Farmer's Insurance Open was played on Torrey Pines, the same course where Tiger won his last major, the 2008 U.S. Open.

Both men are playing in the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week, but neither man will win. Going into the final round, Mickelson is nine shots back (T20) and Tiger is 10 shots back (T29).

Historically, Woods does not play in the week before a major, so we will probably not see him until the start of the Masters (Apr. 7). Phil usually likes to play before major events, but if he does play the upcoming Shell Houston Open before the Masters, could fatigue be factor at Augusta? He will have played three weeks in a...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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