Watson urges McIlroy to cut cancer causing major woes
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Phil Mickelson will be a force to be reckoned with at The Open – Tom Watson
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To point out that 50-year-old Phil Mickelson is now the oldest major champion in golf history doesn’t do justice to the shock of what he pulled off at this year’s PGA Championship.
To say Mickelson was fading from relevance before this herculean win against the world’s best and much younger golfers would be understating it. In fact, entering this weekend, he was verging on afterthought status. He hadn’t finished better than 18
th in a major since 2016, when he was runner-up at the Open Championship, finishing 11 shots ahead of third place but unable to catch Henrik Stenson, who beat him by three at Royal Troon in Scotland. Mickelson didn’t qualify for next month’s U.S. Open and needed a special exemption from the United States Golf Association to make the field something that felt like charity for a once-great legend, a chance to play a marquee event in his hometown of San Diego. He’d started to play senior PGA Tour events, and it seemed like a reasonable idea for him