JockBio: Phil Mickelson Facts

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• PGA Golfer
• Height: 6' 3"	• Weight: 220	• Born: 6/16/70

Phil is the only lefty to win the U.S. Amateur. He, Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus are the only players to win the NCAA Championship and U.S. Amateur in the same year.
Phil and Ben Crenshaw are the only players to win three NCAA individual championships.
Phil won the 1990 Porter Cup with a 63 in final round.
Phil’s caddy for his 1991 Northern Telecom Open victory was his college coach, Steve Loy. He later became Phil’s business manager.
At the 1991 Masters, Phil became the first lefthander to shoot a sub-par round at Augusta National.
Phil shot a 59 at the 2004 Grand Slam of Golf.
Phil shot 28-under at the 2006 Bellsouth Classic, a record for that event.
In 2010, Phil joined Jimmy Demaret, Sam Snead, Nick Faldo and Gary Player as a three-time Masters champion. Only Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have more.
Phil is one of just 18 players to win 30 or more PGA events.
Phil shares three PGA course records: a 61 at the 2001 Travelers Chamionship, TPC Cromwell, a 60 at the 2005 FBR Open, TPC Scottsdale, and a 63 at the 2006 BellSouth Classic, TPC Sugarloaf. He also holds one outright: a 62 at the 2005 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Spyglass Hill.
The first course that Phil designed was Whisper Rock in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Phil won the 2004 ESPY for Best Championship Performance.
Phil shares an interest in aviation with his father. After breaking his leg in a skiing mishap in March of 1994, Phil missed three-quarters of the tournament schedule, but he took advantage of his rehab period to earn his private pilot's license.
After his 2004 Masters title, Phil wrote One Magical Sunday (But Winning Isn’t Everything) with Donald T. Phillips.
Phil's wife Amy once worked as a cheerleader for the Phoenix Suns.
Part of Phil’s weight-reduction program in 2008 included carrying his own bag on practice rounds.
In 2008, Phil was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. His mother, Mary, is of Italian descent.

Tiger Woods, 2007 SI for Kids

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