Team Europe denied a dramatic United States fightback to complete an emotional 17.5-10.5 upset victory
Phil Mickelson has won the British Open for the first time at Muirfield – one month after his heartbreak at the US Open.
The United States has emerged victorious from a pulsating first day’s play in the 39th Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club on Friday.
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/ 14 November 2011
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano has won the Singapore Open play-off, leaving the likes of Phil Mickelson, Retief Goosen and Louis Oosthuizen in his wake.
No further action will be taken against Steve Williams after he was condemned by PGA tour chiefs about his racial slur against Tiger Woods.
Retief Goosen is heading into the first round of the PGA Tour playoffs even though he is nursing a broken toe in order to keep his season alive.
Unheralded Keegan Bradley won the 93rd PGA Championship by rallying from five strokes behind with three holes to play in his Major debut.
Darren Clarke became the oldest winner of the British Open in 44 years after a three-stroke lead ahead of Americans Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson.
World number six Phil Mickelson launched a typically pugnacious charge to join overnight pacesetter Darren Clarke at the top of the leaderboard.
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/ 29 September 2010
American golfing greats Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson may be Ryder Cup teammates but they will never be friends.
American Bubba Watson and Italian Francesco Molinari took control at the US PGA Championship in a fog-disrupted first round on Thursday.
Phil Mickelson’s bid for a first US Open title and Tiger Woods’s form have dominated the build-up to Thursday’s opening round at Pebble Beach.
Phil Mickelson won his third Masters title and fourth Major crown on Sunday while Tiger Woods could only ponder what could have been.
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/ 1 February 2010
Ben Crane sank three lengthy birdie putts on his way to clinching a one-shot victory at the San Diego Open on Sunday.
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/ 30 January 2010
Already missing Tiger Woods because of a sex scandal, the US PGA Tour headed into another mess when a player accused Phil Mickelson of "cheating".
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/ 28 January 2010
Phil Mickelson feels the absence of Tiger Woods from the PGA Tour has dealt golf a major blow and the game needs the world number one back in action.
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/ 9 November 2009
Phil Mickelson left Shanghai on Monday for an extended break, wrapping up a difficult season on a high and excited about his prospects for 2010.
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/ 6 November 2009
Tiger Woods stormed into a share of the lead with Nick Watney at the WGC-HSBC Champions on Friday, with Phil Mickelson one shot behind.
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/ 3 November 2009
Tiger Woods renews battle with Phil Mickelson in China this week as Asia hosts its biggest golf tournament ever with the HSBC Champions.
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/ 27 October 2009
Phil Mickelson warns he is in top form heading into the Barclays Singapore Open, where he faces a field led by Padraig Harrington and Geoff Ogilvy.
Phil Mickelson enters the 91st PGA Championship excited about his return and relieved that his wife and mother have responded well to cancer treatment
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/ 15 November 2008
Phil Mickelson suffered a bogey on his last hole after a spectator took a photo but he still closed the gap on leaders Ernie Els and Simon Dyson.
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/ 11 November 2008
World golf is sorely missing Tiger Woods and the sooner he is back the better, says Phil Mickelson.
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/ 17 September 2008
Phil Mickelson has played on six Ryder Cup teams and lost five of them and he admits he is at a loss to explain why this is.
Expect golf’s big guns to come out firing on Thursday as Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson tee off in a group with Australian Adam Scott in the opening round of the 108th US Open.
World number two Phil Mickelson, third-ranked Ernie Els and fourth-ranked Adam Scott will lead a strong field in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond in July. Mickelson and Els, a double winner of the British Open warm-up event, return after finishing second and third respectively last year behind Frenchman Gregory Havret.
American journeyman Paul Goydos held his nerve in testing conditions to edge one shot clear in the Players Championship third round on Saturday. A stroke off the pace overnight, Goydos delivered another superb putting display on the slick greens at the TPC at Sawgrass to stay on track for his third PGA Tour title.
Germany’s Bernhard Langer rolled back the years with a vintage display while American Kenny Perry eked out a one-shot lead in the Players Championship second round on Friday. Langer sank a monster birdie putt from 60 feet on the treacherous 17th green en route to a sparkling five-under-par 67.
In May a golfer’s thoughts turn to the summer ahead and, if they have trainspotter tendencies, the age-old question of the prestige and status of the Players Championship. The PGA tour, which has its headquarters at TPC Sawgrass, where the event teed off on Thursday, likes nothing better than journalists posing the question: ”Is the Players golf’s fifth Major?”
Spaniard Sergio Garcia, steadily regaining confidence in his putting, took advantage of an early tee-off time to seize a two-stroke lead in the Players Championship first round on Thursday. Seeking his first PGA Tour title in almost three years, Garcia fired a sparkling six-under-par 66 at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass.
A corridor beneath the grandiose clubhouse is lined with black-and-white photographs from more than a quarter-century of winners at The Players Championship since it moved to the notorious TPC Sawgrass. They have little in common except they beat the best field in golf and got very rich.
South Africa’s Trevor Immelman puts his credentials as US Masters champion to their first test in the Byron Nelson Championship from Thursday. Immelman will be looking to wrest the title from Texan Scott Verplank, who had an emotional victory at his hometown event last year shortly after his mentor, Nelson, had passed away.