Since March 7, 2021, Phil Mickelson is no longer in the world top 100. The left-hander from San Diego, 51 years old on June 16, will have remained there for 1,425 weeks, or 28 consecutive years. A record.
1425 weeks. That’s 28 years. That’s the time Phil Mickelson has spent in the world’s top 100. In the latest ranking updated on March 7, 2021, the left-hander from San Diego now appears in 101st place. An illustrious page in golf history is turning somewhere here since the American, who will blow out his 51 candles on June 16, entered this same top 100 on August 22, 1993.
Quickly becoming one of the very best golfers on the planet, Lefty, a five-time Major winner (3 Masters, 1 British, 1 USPGA, 6 times 2nd at the US Open), has curiously never been world No. 1, first blocked by the Australian Greg Norman then by his most faithful “enemy”, a certain Tiger Woods. Having become world No. 2 on February 11, 2001, Mickelson was still there on September 26, 2010. He only definitively left the top 10 on September 14, 2014…
His 27th PLAYERS this week
Still 66th at the end of 2020, the darling of US golf, who moved to the Champions Tour (over-50s circuit) last summer and won his first two tournaments in this age category (in August and then in October), continues to play on the PGA Tour. At the end of January, he took 53rd place in the Farmers Insurance Open at home in Torrey Pines (California) but missed the cut at the American Express and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Victorious at the PLAYERS Championship in 2007 (ahead of Spaniard Sergio Garcia), Phil Mickelson is this week in the field of this tournament considered the 5th Major of the season. This will be his 27th start on the legendary TPC Sawgrass course!
