Phil Mickelson Improbable

Phil Mickelson

Phil Mickelson

Phil Mickelson

The golf world was never supposed to be like this. There were certain problems that made sense and that was that. Fred Couples possessed a smooth swing. Padraig harrington was the champion. Phil Mickelson was the lovable loser we all enjoyed rooting for, even if at times he came through in the clutch.

But this? That?! No no no. We were told this wasn't going to happen. Phil Mickelson was paired on
Sunday with Tiger at Pebble Beach destination, a place that still contains a bruise from the last time Tiger slapped that. No mater what happened since, Pebble was Tiger's to help feast on, and Phil was this guy that had won here before but always as being the guy he was, practically nothing more.


Nope. This isn't that script. Phil isn't supposed to be sticking irons to a few feet while paired using Tiger. He isn't the guy which clutch par putts with darn near Burlingame. And an iron off the 18th tee?! What happened to the man that hit driver heli-copter flight deck with an opportunity to win?

Golf is a game that isn't said to be understandable, yet for so many years, Tiger Woods made it that way. He forced us to believe in another dicotomy. He brainwashed our logic. We knew Phil Mickelson. We knew Padraig harrington. Both incredible talents that couldn't be further from each other.

Much like Steve Work opportunities and Bill Gates, Tiger and Phil are geniuses within their own regard. Phil, similar to Gates, has relied on a career to make him or her a namesake. He had an easy method of doing things but not wavered from it. Tiger generally seems to come more from your Jobs mold, if you don't mind forgetting that Tiger's "blow ups" are more like stares and history. Tiger, like Jobs, got out of your gate fast. He showed us ways to do things. He introduced us to something revolutionary and made it seem like it was a possibility. Phil has always recently been there. From his PGA Tour win for a college kid to his 40th victory today, Mickelson understands who he is and what he does. He is a wizard. He produces things within a game we never imagined possible. He is dependable.

On Sunday, logic lastly left the building. Anyone named Tiger fell to a man named Phil again at a golf course that has demonstrated both the respect they deserve. Phil is a masterful man, but he is no Tiger. These times, it seems the change could as easily get said about Mickelson.

The putts Tiger missed on Sunday may be going to be overblown. He decided, it seemed, that taking the break straight from the infamously bumpy Pebble Beach greens was the way to go, and it never exercised for him. He skipped short putt and limited putt, on the high lip, with too considerably speed. It was some sort of recipe that just wasn't cooking food. Knowing Tiger, he will progress from this the unique way he always does. "I hit some terrific putts today that didn't go in, " he probably said (I honestly didn't examine his quotes). It's the Tiger way.