Bleacher Report: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson Grouping to Be Savored at 2014 PGA Championship

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — They are the major characters in this major championship, the 96th PGA, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, at least for a couple days, facing each other and facing the probability they may never pass this way again.

The game is one of personalities, stars, and during the past decade there have been no greater leading men than Woods and Mickelson, in popularity and frequently on the scoreboard.

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Bleacher Report: Will Incredible 62 Ignite Phil Mickelson Heading into 2014 PGA Championship?

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — One round for Phil Mickelson, who must have played 10,000 rounds of golf in his life. Maybe 50,000. One round, but even for a man who’s been there, done that, won majors, won millions, it's a round that could make a difference.

How strange, the PGA Championship, the tournament which carries the reminder "This is major" at the front of the media tent, is being played at a course named after a hall named for slain warriors in Norse mythology, Valhalla. It is on a course with a funeral connotation Mickelson again seeks to find life.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods both make cut

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

HOYLAKE, England — Phil Mickelson called it a "crazy" round. He was talking about his own play at Royal Liverpool on Friday, but the word very much could have applied to his rival, Tiger Woods.

Mickelson had an eagle on the 528-yard, par-5 fifth hole, lost a ball on the par-5 10th but still made par, and birdied the par-5 18th for a 2-under-par 70 and a 36-hole total of par 144 in the British Open.

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Bleacher Report: Phil Mickelson's Major Window Looks Shut as British Open Title Defense Begins

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

HOYLAKE, England — The one admission was unavoidable. “It hasn’t been a very good year,” affirmed Phil Mickelson. Not at all.

Not when he missed the cut in the Masters and finished 28th in the U.S. Open.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Phil Mickelson is upbeat despite being out of Open contention

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

PINEHURST, N.C. — He's been the star in residence at this U.S. Open.

So much has been written about Phil Mickelson returning to Pinehurst where 15 years ago he was beaten by a shot by Payne Stewart.

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