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Ryder Cup
2002 |
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Phil Mickelson
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Birthdate:
June 16, 1970
Birthplace: San Diego, Calif.
Age: 30 Ht: 6'2" Wt:
190
Home: Scottsdale, Ariz.
College: Arizona State
Turned Professional: 1992
Joined PGA Tour: 1992
Ryder Cup: Member of the 1995, 1997 and 1999 U.S. Ryder
Cup teams ... record of 3-6-2 in Ryder Cup competition |
Player Notes
Mickelson started playing golf at the age of one and a half, playing
left-handed as a mirror-image of his father's swing ... When Phil
got serious about the game his father built a complete practice
area in the backyard of their home in San Diego ... Phil had a
fabulous amateur career, winning the 1989 and 1990 NCAA Championships
and the 1990 U.S. Amateur, and was the consensus 1990 College
Player of the Year; he was also the low amateur (T29th) at 1990
U.S. Open and a four-time All-American ... Mickelson won the 1991
Northern Telecom Open as an amateur, becoming the fifth youngest
winner of a professional event ever ... He turned professional
at the 1992 U.S. Open, and since then has become the 3rd golfer
(Jack Nicklaus and Jerry Pate are the others) to win five events
before age 25. In 1996 he became the first golfer in over 20 years
to win the Arizona slam (Nortel and Phoenix), the last to accomplish
that was Johnny Miller ... With his 10th win at Bay Hill in 1997,
he was the fourth youngest player to accomplish that milestone
(only Horton Smith, Gene Sarazen and Jack Nicklaus were younger,
Tiger Woods has since joined that list) ... Though he plays golf
left-handed, is right-handed in everything else ... One of only
four male collegians (with Ben Crenshaw, Curtis Strange and Billy
Ray Brown) to win the NCAA title as a freshman ... One of only
three players (with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods) to win the
NCAA and the U.S. Amateur in the same year ... Led the 1996 money
list from January until the last week of the year when Tom Lehman
won the Tour Championship ... His four wins were the most won
on the PGA Tour in 1996. ... Without winning in 1999 he broke
a streak in which he had won at least one PGA Tour event every
year since 1993 (six consecutive years) ... One streak that is
still alive, he has won over a million dollars a year for the
last five years. He enjoyed his sixth multi-winner year in 2000,
and his second four-win season His win in the 2000 Buick Invitational
ended Tiger Woods' victory streak at six.
PGA Tour Wins: 19 - 1990 Northern Telecom Open (as an Amateur),
1993 Buick Invitational of California, The International, 1994
Mercedes Championship, 1995 Northern Telecom Open, 1996 Nortel
Open, Phoenix Open, GTE Byron Nelson Classic, NEC World Series
of Golf, 1997 Bay Hill Invitational, Sprint International, 1998
Mercedes Championship, AT&T Pebble Beach, 2000 Buick Invitational,
BellSouth Classic, MasterCard Colonial, Tour Championship, 2001
Buick Invitational, Canon Greater Hartford Open |
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