Mickelson Become No. 1

All of golf lovers know that the "Big Four" of this bearing — Woods, Mickelson, Vijay Singh and Ernie Els — Mickelson is the alone amateur to accept never been No. 1. Woods has been No. 1 the accomplished 5 years.
Woods who likes the TaylorMade Burner Superfast Driver is able of authoritative history at just about any golf tournament, and The Players Championship is no exception. But the catechism is whether he would absence the cut in after tournaments for the aboriginal time in his career.
So this is good news to Phil Mickelson. That 15-foot baboon putt Phil Mickelson fabricated on the final aperture at Quail Hollow on Sunday meant added than an added $130,000 for finishing in additional abode alone.
It put him in position to become No. 1 in the world. Mickelson could ability the top apple baronial for the aboriginal time in his career by acceptable The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, provided Tiger Woods finishes out of the top five.
Mickelson is aggravating to become alone the 13th amateur to be No. 1 back the rankings began in 1986, and he has drive on his side. He won The Players Championship two years ago, and he is advancing off a Masters achievement and the runner-up accomplishment at Quail Hollow.
"I'm animated that this aboriginal clash went well, because afterwards a brace weeks off afterwards a big top like Augusta, you never apperceive area the bold is traveling to be at," Mickelson said Sunday. "And the way that I played and kept the brawl in play and hit acceptable shots, I'm searching advanced to next week."