Phil Mickelson’s stretch of consecutive weeks in the top 50 of the World Ranking could end this week at the CJ Cup after nearly 26 years. Yet that’s not the only decades-long run that he might see snapped in the near future.
Mickelson, who is in the field this week in South Korea, could drop outside the world’s top 50 depending where he and others finish in the no-cut event and how myriad scenarios play out.
At a point on the calendar when many of golf’s biggest names are taking some down time and playing little to no golf, Phil Mickelson is having his busiest fall in years.
There are a lot of reasons that slow play is such a huge problem on the PGA Tour, but one that’s taken much of the blame of late is the use of green-reading books, also known as greens books or green-reading materials.
Ahead of his Major championship debut at the US Open on Thursday, Web.com Tour regular and Inverell favourite son Brett Drewitt shared his journey to Pebble Beach with Tony Webeck.
Phil’s fiasco (and others) have exposed a deepening rift between the ruling body and the game’s best players, who once even considered a boycott of the US Open.
Following Mickelson’s opening 70 at the Memorial, the six-time US Open runner-up was asked about how the USGA sets up the golf courses for its biggest annual event. He did not hold back.
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