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Golf- A new Mickelson is winning majors
(AP)
Updated: 2006-04-11 08:55 But Mickelson is worth closer inspection. He now has won a major in three straight seasons, joining Woods as the only players to have done that in the last 20 years. Only five other players — Tom Watson, Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Peter Thomson and Ralph Guldahl — have won majors in at least three consecutive years since the Masters was created in 1934. And there is one more link to Woods unrelated to the majors. A week before the Masters, Mickelson honed his game by winning the BellSouth Classic by 13 shots, a margin of victory rarely seen. Woods won the U.S. Open by 15 and the Masters by 12, and he won two PGA Tour events by 11. The only other active player to win in double digits was two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal, by 12 shots at Firestone in 1990. Two spectacular weeks in Georgia elevated Mickelson to No. 2 in the world, primed for his biggest season ever. The slogan in a popular commercial with Mickelson used to be, "What will Phil do next?" Now, it seems to be more a matter of when.
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