RealClearSports: Maybe It's Phil's Time, Maybe Never

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Art Spander in Phil Mickelson, U.S. Open, articles, golf

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

BETHESDA, Md. — This is what you like about Phil Mickelson, a golfer never afraid to go after a tough question or a difficult hole: While others choose to revel in what he hasn't accomplished, Phil has found satisfaction in what he has.

Let's agree on this. In America, except to the cognoscenti, only two players truly matter, Tiger Woods and Mickelson. And with Tiger not at this 111th U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in the leafy suburbs of Washington, D.C., Phil finds himself a majority of one.

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