With precise play from tee to green, Callaway Golf Staff
Professional Phil Mickelson distanced himself from the field on Sunday
for his first career victory at THE PLAYERS Championship. The
two-stroke win at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, was
the 31st of Mickelson's PGA career -- and he did it with
uncharacteristically little drama.
Mickelson's lone bogey over the final 27 holes came on the final
hole with the outcome all but assured. He fired a 3-under-par 69 on
Sunday to finish the tournament 11-under-par, locking up his second
victory of 2007.
On his way to taming the demanding new layout at TPC Sawgrass,
Lefty used every tool in his bag -- the FT-5 Driver, a Tour 13 degree
X Fairway Wood, 2H and 3H X Hybrids, the new X-Forged Irons, X-Tour
Wedges the HX Tour Golf Ball and a prototype Odyssey Putter.
"What I'd like to do is have four days of ball-striking like
today's final round and then it takes a lot of pressure off my short
game," Mickelson said. "It was a very mediocre day for me putting. I
could have run it high if I would have made some reasonable putts. I
will gladly take the way the round went because it was a stress-free
type round."
With the win, Mickelson moved to No. 2 in the World Golf Rankings
and second place in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Standings. In just three
weeks of working with new instructor Butch Harmon, Mickelson has seen
substantial results and sounds ready for the season's next two majors.
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