At 50, Phil Mickelson still loves the chase and caught himself one more major championship
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Mickelson becomes oldest player to win a major with PGA Championship title (1:13)
Phil Mickelson wins the PGA Championship to become the oldest player to win a major tournament. (1:13) Covered golf for more than 20 years Earned Evans Scholarship to attend Indiana University
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. Phil Mickelson loves the banter, loves the competition, loves golf. That would seemingly be a prerequisite for greatness, but it is hardly a common trait among the elite. It s why careers fade away, why glory is fleeting.
Lefty never lost that passion, which is why on Sunday at the PGA Championship he became the oldest major champion in the game s storied history.
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Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii – Winning on the PGA TOUR is the only way to qualify for the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions. Courtesy of their recent victories, Phil Mickelson, K.H. Lee, Rory McIlroy, Sam Burns, Marc Leishman, Cameron Smith and Stewart Cink became the latest players to qualify for the champions-only event and join 16 other TOUR winners this calendar year on Maui when the 2022 event returns to The Plantation Course at Kapalua in January.
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Phil Mickelson earned his sixth major championship title, and 45
th PGA TOUR victory, at the PGA Championship with a two-shot victory over Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen. With the win, Mickelson became the oldest major winner in TOUR history and first player to win a major after age 50. The California native became the fourth player to win TOUR events in four different decades and moved to T8 on the all-time TOUR wins list. The two-time Sentry Tournament of Champions winner qualified for a return trip to
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drought in majors continued in the 103rd US PGA Championship.
McIlroy failed to break par in any round at Kiawah Island, rounds of 75, 72, 74 and 72 leaving the four-time major winner on five over par.
“More of the same, very average,” McIlroy said when asked to sum up a closing 72 containing four birdies and four bogeys.
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Phil Mickelson plays his shot on the 16th hole during the third round of the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island Resort’s Ocean Course. Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
Bidding to become the oldest winner in major history, Phil Mickelson will take a slender lead into the final day of the 103rd US PGA Championship after an extraordinary third round at Kiawah Island.
Eight years after claiming his fifth major title in the 2013 Open and 16 years on from winning the US PGA title at Baltusrol, Mickelson produced some vintage golf to surge into a five-shot lead, only to see it wiped out six holes later.