RealClearSports: Phil Mickelson: From Whipping Boy to Winner
By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
It's interesting, all this praise for Phil Mickelson, not that it's undeserved. Not too long ago, he was everyone's whipping boy, the anti-Tiger if you will. Knocked for the way he played, knocked for the way he acted.
Four years ago, GQ magazine made him No. 8, and the only golfer, in its audacious article of the Ten Most Hated Athletes, one of those arbitrary lists designed to be outrageous if not accurate.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010
For RealClearSports.com
It's interesting, all this praise for Phil Mickelson, not that it's undeserved. Not too long ago, he was everyone's whipping boy, the anti-Tiger if you will. Knocked for the way he played, knocked for the way he acted.
Four years ago, GQ magazine made him No. 8, and the only golfer, in its audacious article of the Ten Most Hated Athletes, one of those arbitrary lists designed to be outrageous if not accurate.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010