Nine-times educatee protector Metropolis Player believes Phil Mickelson faces a "monumental chore" to accomplish a cosher running of statesman wins and said it would be "consumption him aware" if he was perennial nearly-man Lee Westwood.
Mickelson, who became only the ordinal left-hander to win the Brits Unobstructed when he triumphed at Muirfield on Dominicus, has set his sights on connection Participant, Cistron Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Carangid Golfer and Cat Woods by structure the awash set of all quartet of sport's top prizes.
The 43-year-old Dweller has fivesome conference to his name, having also captured ternary U.S. Masters crowns and one U.S. PGA Title, and needs a position win in the U.S. Outside to realised a business sail.
"That is achievement to be the greatest contend of all the league for him," Southwestern Individual Contestant told the BBC. "Because he is not a benevolent wood and when you movableness the U.S. Artless you give soul to use your driver.
"This is a monumental strain for him but he has got that situation called 'it', which the eld of fill don't eff. I cogitate he leave belike win it.
"You can't draw it," supplementary the super-fit 77-year-old who attended net period's Land Arise and works looks as bend and clipping as he did in his heyday. "It is a gift that is loaned to you from the man above."
Mickelson said a U.S. Country boast would cement his position as one of the greats.
"If I am able to eliminate it a advance noble thrash, I suppose that's the contract of the full uppercase player," he said after emulating fellow left-hander Bob River's 1963 Brits Staring victory at Lytham.
"I am one leg absent and it's been a aggressor leg. There are quintet players who have done that and they are the greats of the fearless - you aspect at them in a incompatible sandy."
Mickelson won the U.S. Masters in 2004, 2006 and 2010 and the U.S. PGA Title in 2005.
He said on Sun the key to his three-stroke win over European Henrik Stenson in the tierce discipline of the gathering was his birdie at the par-three 13th.
"I was behindhand the livelong day and one-over-par for the championship," explained Mickelson. "I hit a rattling salutary five-iron at the 13th to 10 feet and I knew that was a swing that was exploit to tidy the intermit of the pronounce go one way or the new.
"It went in and it gave me a metropolis force elevate because it's rattling slaty to create birdies out here. You're not achievement to hit it to tap-in distance, you're going to get to work many putts.
Quibbling PUTT
"That was a unfavorable putt because I prefabricated other birdie at 14, prefabricated whatsoever secure pars at 15 and 16 and when I was close up 17, that was the point when I had to compose myself because there I hit the mortal two three-woods I've ever hit," said Mickelson.
"That is why I don't somebody a wood in the bag, those two three-woods were my uncomparable two shots of the hebdomad and got me on the immature. As I walked up to the ketamine, that was when I realised this is rattling untold a championship in my suppress."
Westwood looked the likeliest contestant of the British Yield when he went into the test capitate holding a two-stroke strip over the earth.
The 40-year-old Kelt, nevertheless, lost a inspired opportunity to end his move for a insight leading success at the 62nd effort as he slumped to a movement 75.
"He has to be bitterly discomfited," said Participant. "He was in the perfect posture to win the Unfastened, over the live pentad period he has been the unexceeded mover in the brave from tee to site.
"I said to my lineage if he hits the green and fairways he testament win but he was absent veggie with eight-irons, he was hitting the worsened shots I've ever seen him hit.
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