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Woods, Mickelson still going strong in their 40s
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
L
OS ANGELES —
The 144-man field at
Riviera has 88 play-
ers who have combined to
win 496 times on the PGA
Tour.
Tiger Woods and Phil
Mickelson account for 25
percent of those victories.
No one should be
surprised.
While too one-sided
to be a rivalry, they have
been a powerful one-two
punch in golf. The same
day Woods won his third
straight U.S. Amateur right
before he turned pro, Mick-
elson won the World Series
of Golf at Firestone. Woods
picked up his 80th career
victory at the Tour Cham-
pionship to end last season.
Mickelson won his 44th at
Pebble Beach on Monday.
If anything raises eye-
brows, it’s that Mickelson
believes their trophy collec-
tion will keep growing.
“I just believe that, even
today, if I play my best,
if Tiger plays his best, it’s
good enough to win on any
week,” Mickelson said.
“And the challenge is there
are so many great young
players, and so many great
players in the game today,
that it takes our best to win.
I just think that both myself
and Tiger are going to have
a really, really good year
AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File
In this Sept. 4, 2018, file photo, Phil Mickelson, left, listens to Tiger Woods speak during a
news conference where they were announced as captain’s picks for the 2018 U.S. Ryder Cup
Team in West Conshohocken, Pa.
this year.”
Nothing changes the
outlook like winning, and
Mickelson made it look easy
on the weekend at the AT&T
Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
He recovered from con-
secutive bogeys along the
ocean, when the wind and
rain were at their worst, by
playing the final 26 holes
without a bogey. Mickelson
made an 8-foot par putt on
the 17th hole Saturday. Oth-
erwise, his longest putt for
par during that stretch was
4 feet.
But it’s harder than it
looks.
Mickelson turns 49
this summer, and one of
the most underrated qual-
ities has been his health.
He revealed in the summer
of 2010 that he was deal-
ing with psoriatic arthritis.
Otherwise, his injuries have
been either minor (left wrist
from Oakmont’s rough in
2007) or temporary (broken
leg from skiing in 1994).
“The challenge is get-
ting myself to play my best,”
Mickelson said.
Woods is 43 with eight
surgeries behind him —
four on his left knee, four on
his lower back.
His comeback last year
is why expectations are so
high now. Woods played
well in Florida last year,
took a dip in the late spring
and then kept getting bet-
ter until winning the Tour
Championship the way he
won so many other tourna-
ments. He built a lead over
54 holes and played the kind
of golf that was tough to
beat.
He was at his best that
week, and he had to be.
With the meat of the sea-
son about to begin, the ques-
tion is how often they can be
at their best against deeper
and younger competition.
He seems to be doing just
fine. Mickelson was poised
to win the Desert Classic
until he lost on a birdie at
the last hole to Adam Long,
who was No. 417 in the
world ranking. He overcame
a three-shot deficit against
Paul Casey by closing with
a 65 at Pebble Beach. In
between was a missed cut
at the Phoenix Open, where
he changed driver in search
of a few extra yards. Mick-
elson is always chasing
distance.
His optimism comes
from picking up 6 mph of
swing speed for his driver,
which he says rarely hap-
pens to anybody, let alone
someone in his late 40s.
There was no secret
involved.
“It’s not really a secret.
It was nine months of hard
work,” Mickelson said.
“And then overnight I was
swinging 6 mph fast. It
was biometric swing stud-
ies, taking weaknesses and
making them strengths.
It was time in the gym. It
was a whole workout pro-
cess. It’s been a lot of work,
but days like this make it
worthwhile.”
Mickelson last year won
the Mexico Championship
for his first victory in more
than four years, the longest
drought of his career. Even
when he wasn’t winning, he
was a runner-up at majors
three straight years.
Woods went five years
without winning, but that
was different. During a
four-year stretch when he
had four back surgeries, he
played only 19 times on the
PGA Tour and registered
only one top-10 finish. To
have won last year, to have
risen to just outside the top
10 in the world, is cause for
optimism.
But it’s not easy.
“I’ve worked to give my
body the best chance to do
my job, but there are days
when I just don’t practice
and I don’t train. Those are
days I’ve just got to rest,”
Woods said at Torrey Pines.
“That’s probably been one
of the lessons I’ve learned
through all of this, is there
are days I just have to shut it
down.”
The Genesis Open is
their first time competing
against each other since
the Tour Championship,
notwithstanding the over-
hyped made-for-TV match
they played with $9 million
going to the winner (Mick-
elson). They are in elite
territory financially, too.
With his victory, Mickelson
joined Woods as the only
players to surpass $90 mil-
lion in career earnings on
the PGA Tour.
Mickelson says his goal
of 50 victories might be
tougher to achieve than he
realized. What about $100
million?
“I just need one more
match with Tiger and I
should get there,” he said.
His game is sharp is ever.
So is the needle.
Shiffrin’s plans blown off course in windy giant slalom
By ANDREW DAMPF
Associated Press
ARE,
Sweden
—
Mikaela Shiffrin might have
lost this race before it even
started.
The moment she stepped
outside on Thursday, Shif-
frin was hit in the face with
an unseasonably warm gust
of wind — not to mention
the rain flooding this Swed-
ish resort.
“When I saw this today
I was ... losing confidence a
little bit,” Shiffin acknowl-
edged after settling for
the bronze medal in the
giant slalom at the world
championships.
Attempting to follow up
her gold medal in giant sla-
lom from last year’s Pyeo-
ngchang Olympics, Shiffrin
sat fourth after the opening
run and only improved one
spot in her second trip down
the mountain.
“It felt like you couldn’t
get small enough to get out
of the wind,” she said. “In
the start, both runs actu-
ally, but especially the sec-
ond run, I started to feel the
wind coming on stronger
and pushing me backwards
from the starting gate.”
It was so windy that
organizers removed the ban-
ner above the finishing line
for safety reasons, and the
panels placed between gates
flapped violently as skiers
whipped past them.
Petra Vlhova, Shiffrin’s
Slovakian rival, found a way
to beat the wind and won the
first individual gold of her
career. First-run leader Vik-
toria Rebensburg of Ger-
many came second, 0.14
seconds behind, while Shif-
frin was 0.38 back.
When Shiffrin started
the championships by win-
ning gold in the super-G last
week, the temperature was 0
F (-18 C). Then she left town
to train in Norway for five
days, skipping the Alpine
combined — an event she
would have been the over-
whelming favorite for —
and the downhill.
When Shiffrin returned,
the temperature was 44
degrees warmer (7C).
AP Photo/Marco Trovati
Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates after winning the bronze medal in
the giant slalom at the World Championships in Are, Sweden.
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