'One of the moments I'll cherish my entire life': Phil Mickelson rewrites golf's history books

'It's very possible that this is the last tournament I ever win, like if I'm being realistic. But it's also very possible that I may have had a little bit of a breakthrough in some of my focus and maybe I go on a little bit of a run, I don't know.'
'One of the moments I'll cherish my entire life': Phil Mickelson rewrites golf's history books

PHIL THE THRILL: Phil Mickelson holds the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the PGA Championship on the Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, S.C. 

It was bedlam, the kind of sheer chaos that suited 50-year-old Phil Mickelson to a tee.

From the wild roller-coaster opening seven holes when Mickelson and Brooks Koepka traded haymakers and two- and three-shot swings to the frightening breakdown in crowd control on the 18th hole, it was the kind of scene that was made for the left-hander called “Phil the Thrill.”

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