After he shocked the golf world 4 years in the past by profitable the PGA Championship at age 50, Phil Mickelson had a second of sincere self-assessment. “It’s very attainable that that is the final match I ever win. Like if I’m being sensible,” Mickelson mentioned on that triumphant Sunday at Kiawah Island.
Mickelson hasn’t gained since, and whereas he wasn’t desirous to mirror Wednesday on a profession that features six main titles and simply as many well-known near-misses, he indicated his aggressive future is proscribed.
He mentioned he desires to assist his teammates on LIV’s HyFlyers squad and would step away if he is now not doing that.
“I’m additionally going to be 55 in a pair weeks, so I wish to be sensible there, too. I would like this group to succeed. I don’t wish to maintain it again,” Mickelson mentioned. “If I’m holding it again, then it’s time for me to maneuver on and get any person else in right here.”
Mickelson additionally acknowledged the chance that Oakmont can be his final U.S. Open. He has a file six runner-up finishes on the nationwide championship, the one main he hasn’t gained.
“There’s a excessive probability that it will likely be,” Mickelson mentioned, “however I haven’t actually considered it an excessive amount of.”
The USGA gave Mickelson a particular exemption to the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, which he in the end did not want as a result of he gained at Kiawah a month earlier. Nonetheless, the U.S. Open traditionally doesn’t grant a couple of particular exemption to any participant, and Mickelson has missed the previous three U.S. Open cuts. He stays exempt for the opposite three majors as a previous champion.
Mickelson has gained six main tournaments in his skilled profession, which started all the best way again in 1992. He gained the Masters in 2004, 2006 and 2010, the PGA Championship in 2005 and 2021 and The Open Championship in 2013, however has but to win the U.S. Open.
“Lefty” has completed second on the U.S. Open on six events: 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2013. Mickelson has been trying to complete off the final leg of the grand slam since 2014, following his victory at The Open the yr prior.
The U.S. Open can be performed from June 12 by June 15 at Oakmont Nation Membership.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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