{"id":1374083,"date":"2021-06-15T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1374083"},"modified":"2021-06-15T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T02:08:56","slug":"ranking-phil-mickelson-us-open-runner-up-finishes-level-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-phil-mickelson-us-open-runner-up-finishes-level-heartbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Phil Mickelson's U.S. Open Runner-Up Finishes by Level of Heartbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With 45 PGA<\/a> Tour wins and six major championship victories, Phil Mickelson<\/a> is already a Hall of Famer and easily one of the greatest golfers of all time. He just recently became the oldest winner of a major championship by winning the PGA Championship<\/a> at age 50 and has won three legs of the career Grand Slam<\/a> with three victories at The Masters, two at the PGA, and one at The Open Championship. But then there's the U.S. Open, the one major victory that's eluded Mickelson for three decades now, which is rather unfortunate for Lefty as he's long said it's the major he always wanted to win more than any other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's not as if Mickelson hasn't come close to winning a U.S. Open<\/a> as he's famously finished as the runner-up a record six times. Phil really wasn't in contention for one of those but he was right there for the other five and just couldn't get it done for one reason or another. So what we decided to do here today was rank Mickelson's six runner-up finishes at the U.S. Open, starting with the least excruciating and counting down to the most heartbreaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. 2002-Phil Mickelson finishes second to Tiger Woods at Bethpage Black<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Phil Mickelson tees off during the final round of the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black | Donald Miralle\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After shooting 70-73-67 over the first three days of the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, Mickelson entered the final round five shots back of Tiger Woods<\/a>, who was one of just two players under par after 54 holes, the other being Sergio Garcia. Woods opened the door a bit with some early three-putts but nobody was willing to walk through. Phil struggled a bit on his own on the front nine and while he still finished two shots better than Tiger that day, Woods still won by three to capture his second of three U.S. Open titles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. 2009-Lefty comes up short at Bethpage yet again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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