Former caddie and on-course TV reporter Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay is in no doubt about the brilliance of the two shots his former boss Phil Mickelson hit into the 17th hole of the final round in the 2013 Open at Muirfield.
“I tell people all the time,” he told Planet Sport last week. “If you take the 10 best shots I ever witnessed Phil hit, he hit two of them right there, back-to-back, on the same hole, in a major championship, one he’d never won, right when he needed it.
“I worked with him for over 25 years so what are the odds of that?! It was phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal.”
It was also the conclusion of a slow burn transformation because Mickelson may well be one of the most creative and audacious golfers of all time, but the Open linksland test was one that had frequently befuddled him.
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