With a cheque for $US305,000, the Kiwi has earned $US896,207 – more than he made in his PGA Tour career – in just nine tournaments since he qualified for the Boeing Classic outside Seattle in late August for his PGA Tour Champions debut.
Phil Mickelson has the ability to make golf look easy, even when he’s making it hard on himself. Case in point: the par save Lefty made on the 16th hole Sunday (Monday morning AEDT) en route to victory at the Constellation Furyk & Friends.
The primary school maths teacher from Michigan will be making his PGA Tour Champions debut at the Sanford International. And he got there by schooling a lot of seasoned tour pros.
Dodd’s immediate future remains unclear, but it would be something of a surprise if his hope is not to parlay this victory into at least a few years on the lucrative senior circuit in the United States.
It is surely a question asked by many of Bernhard Langer’s fellow competitors on the PGA Tour Champions: What is the secret behind the 63-year-old German’s longevity?
Catching up with mates and then kicking their butts. That’s the strategy that Robert Allenby intends to employ as he makes his Champions Tour debut at this week’s Senior Open Championship at Sunningdale Golf Club in London.
What Mickelson took away from his second PGA Tour Champions start was a second victory and whatever confidence one can glean form a test less stringent than those ahead of him.
Jim Furyk needed no introduction, of course, but he emphatically made his presence known anyway by winning his PGA Tour Champions debut in the tour’s return from a five-month COVID-19 hiatus.
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