Phil Mickelson at 50: The Week He Defied Golf's Clock

At 50, Phil Mickelson arrived at Kiawah Island ranked 115th in the world. Four rounds later, he became the oldest winner of a men's major championship. This Tee Slip Archive episode follows the 2021 PGA Championship round by round: the early bogeys, the closing-nine recoveries, the fifth-hole shot from the sand, the downwind 366-yard drive, and the final par that secured his sixth major. Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen kept the result in doubt until the finish. 00:00 The final approach at Kiawah 00:29 Thursday: recovering from four early bogeys 02:40 Friday: a closing-nine surge 05:01 Saturday: building and losing a cushion 07:16 Sunday: the lead changes hands 08:49 The fifth-hole recovery shot 10:35 The back-nine contest 12:25 The 366-yard drive at sixteen 13:48 Completing the eighteenth 14:18 The oldest men's major champion Subscribe to Tee Slip Archive for golf stories told through the shots and scorecards that decided them. Music: "Ever Mindful" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Thumbnail: editorial illustration inspired by the saved Ace Golf style study.