Philip Alfred "Phil" Mickelson (innate June 16, 1970) (nicknamed "Lefty" for having the left-handed swing, despite being right-handed), is an American professional golfer. He is one of a leading players of his generation, getting won both major championships and a amount of twenty-xxvii cases on the PGA Tour.

Career summary
Natural around San Diego, California and raised in Arizona (graduating from ASU), Mickelson began playing golf game at the super immature age. Around 1990, Mickelson became the 1st left-hander to win the U.S. Amateur title. By 1991, he had won his number 1 PGA Tour tournament at a Northern Telecom Open as an amateur, becoming the 1st to launder then since Scott Verplank at the 1985 American Open.

Mickelson continued to win numerous PGA Tour tournaments, winning at a Byron Nelson Golf Classic and the World Series of Golf in 1996, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 1998, the Colonial in 2000 and the Greater Hartford Open in 2001 and again in 2002. All the same, despite his triumph (Xxi when of 2004), he experienced however to win the major championship until his victory at A Masters inside '04. Prior to the triumph, he was considered to exist as a better golf player in the globe world health organization experienced non won a major, typically getting been accused of "choking" in such events.

His Masters win mass produced him single a third linksman using the left-handed swing to win a major, the others existence New Zealander Sir Bob Charles who won the British Open in 1963 and Canadian Mike Weir who won The Masters around 2003. (Rather Mickelson, Weir occurs as correct-hander world health organization plays left-handed.) Mickelson is as well one of single Quintet linksman (Al Geiberger, Chip Beck, David Duval, Annika Sörenstam) to have ever shot 59 inside competition, & is the just left-hander among the two. His 59 come at a PGA Grand Slam of Golf at Poipu Bay Golf Course on November 2 dozen, 2004. Yet, it doesn't count in a record because the Grand Slam of Golf game doesn't count as an official event, therefore there are just Quaternary golf player to record "official" 59s. Inside a Monday final spherical, Mickelson captured his 2nd career major championship by using his triumph at the 2005 PGA Championship at Baltusrol. Mickelson hit the brilliant chip (one of his trademark 'Phil Phlop' shots) to in 2 feet of the ventral suction cup. Mickelson processed his birdie to finish at the Four-under-par number of 276, round ahead of Steve Elkington and Thomas Björn. Mickelson was joined within celebration by his married woman & troika tykes; his immature, Evan, with excitement gambol a green, performing what announcer Jim Nantz described as a victory lap.

PGA Tour career summary table

Month	Majors	More wins	PGA TOUR wins	Earnings ($)	Rank
1991	0	One	One	understand note	N/A
1992	0	0	0	171,714	90
1993	0	Two	Two	628,735	22
1994	0	One	One	748,316	15
1995	0	One	One	655,777	28
1996	0	Four	Four	1,697,799	2
1997	0	Two	Two	1,225,390	11
1998	0	Two	Two	1,837,246	6
1999	0	0	0	1,722,681	14
2000	0	Four	Four	4,746,457	2
2001	0	2	2	4,403,833	2
200Two	0	2	2	4,311,971	2
2003	0	0	0	1,623,137	38
2004	One	One	Two	5,784,823	3
2005	One	Three	Four	5,609,024	3

Updated September Two 2005.

Note:Mickelson won as an amateur inside 1991 & so did non receive any prize money.

Existence the super popular golf player also as a successful of these, Mickelson is entity to earn far sir thomas more from either endorsements than he does within prize money. Around 2004, Forbes estimated his annual income at $20 million.

Results in major championships

DNP = did non play
CUT = missed a half way cut
"T" indicates the tie for the place.

PGA Tour wins
1991 Northern Telecom Open 1993 Buick Invitational of California, The International 1994 Mercedes Championships 1995 Northern Telecom Open 1996 Nortel Open, Phoenix Open, GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic, NEC World Series of Golf 1997 Bay Hill Invitational, Sprint International 1998 Mercedes Championships, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am 2000 Buick Invitational, BellSouth Classic, MasterCard Colonial, The Tour Championship 2001 Buick Invitational, Canon Greater Hartford Open 2002 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, Canon Greater Hartford Open 2004 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, The Masters 2005 FBR Open, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, BellSouth Classic, PGA Championship

Mickelson's major championships come shown within bold.

Other professional wins
1993 Tournoi Perrier Paris (Europe, however it's the Challenge Tour not a European Tour event) 2001 Tylenol Par-Three Shootout at Crown Resort 2004 TELUS Skins Game, PGA Grand Slam of Golf

Team appearances
Amateur Walker Cup: 1989, 1991 Eisenhower Trophy: 1990 Professional Presidents Cup: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005 Ryder Cup: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004 Dunhill Cup: 1996