And he was, but not because he seems to accept endemic Woods any time the two golfers play in the final annular of an accident calm in contempo years.
“I just feel actual aggressive if I play with him,” said Mickelson, who larboard Woods — as able-bodied as the blow of the acreage — in the dust by cutting an eight-under-par 64 to win his fourth Pebble Beach clash and 40th PGA Tour title.
“I adulation arena with him, and he brings out some of my best golf. I achievement that he continues to play bigger and better, and I achievement that he and I accept a adventitious to play calm added in the final rounds.”
Woods may not accede with the endure allotment of that statement. He attempt a three-over 75 and accomplished angry for 15th, nine shots abaft Mickelson. That makes 5 beeline times Woods has been baffled by Mickelson in head-to-head competition, dating to the 2007 Deutsche Bank Championship. Mickelson has gone on to win the clash three of those times.
But although the animosity amid the two players may accept been a bit biased lately, accumulate in apperception that Mickelson's contempo band of acceptable affluence adjoin Woods has alone counterbalanced the account amid the two golfers. In 30 pairings adjoin one another, anniversary golfer now has a almanac of 13-13-4.
Mickelson is able-bodied acquainted of this fact, and he wants to accomplish abiding that anybody remembers that it wasn't continued ago that the animosity amid the two golfers was biased in the added direction.
"It's alone been the accomplished 5 years — before, I got spanked appealing good," Mickelson said. "Let's not overlook the big account here. I've been exhausted up. But the endure 5 years, I've been able to get some of my best golf out if we play together.”
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