No major problems for Phil

WHEN Phil Mickelson finally ended 11 years of “major” misery by winning the Masters at Augusta National in April 2004, it looked as if he had the golfing world at his feet.

The consensus was that having rid himself of a particularly unwelcome jinx, he would go on to capture many, many more of golf’s greatest prizes.

Instead, ‘04 passed without anything exceptional and now another three majors have passed by in ‘05 without the slightest sign of the game’s greatest left hander even challenging at Augusta, at Pinehurst for the US Open and St Andrews for the Open.