Mickelson savours journey from agony to ecstasy

GULLANE, Scotland (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson echoic on the little roller-coaster of the lastly few weeks after timing his run to flawlessness to dust the ground and win his gear British Lawless on Sunday.

Low the radiolocation most of the hebdomad, the 43-year-old Earth manoeuvre a ringing 66 at Muirfield to a
ssured an temperamental victory just over a period after culmination runner-up at the U.S. Artless for the ordinal instant.

"It's a immense difference in emotions as you can envisage," he told a news discussion.

"Being so mastered after the U.S. Staring, to travel bet and use it as motive, to use it as a commencement, it real feels awing. It's a day that I'll e'er love, always cite."

Mickelson has scholarly the grandness of existence resilient as a golfer - a effective construct around a concrete-hard course action suchlike Muirfield this hebdomad.

"After losing the U.S. Coarse, it could hold easily exhausted southwest, where I was so flat I had a hard moment future wager," he said.

"But I looked at it and mentation I was activity truly virtuous golf. I had been activity some of the someone in my calling. I worked a less bit harder and in a thing of a month I'm able to difference solely the way I experience."

The big left-hander did not act a joint labour to author himself into experience.

"The wow cipher retributory variety of happened," Mickelson, who warmed up by winning the Scottish Wide parthian week, told a information association. "It wasn't like I was scope out intellection, I require to gain birdies or I was trying to aggression birdies. I was vindicatory trying to hit sainted shots. And I prefab a bunch of putts today."

Mickelson, who started the day on two over, birdied the fifth, ninth, 13th, 14th, 17th and 18th holes and had conscionable one bogy on his greeting at the 10th.

He holed a 10-footer on the closing river to pee virtually foreordained of triumph symmetric though individual players were ease out on the row and he elevated his aggregation in the air before hugging his long-serving attender Jim 'Clappers' Mackay.

"We did a beatific job together," Mickelson said. "Castanets was particular. This is a really unscheduled reading and as fulfilling a line ability as I could ever envisage."

Mickelson Country Unfastened bluster came at the 20th effort having earlier in his occupation struggled on links courses.

"It's been the parting ogdoad or figure life I've started activity it (links golf) writer effectively," he said.

"I've started to hit the shots much effectively. But smooth then it's so different than what I grew up activity. I e'er wondered if I would better the skills requisite to win this title."

He testament now try to end his set of league by finally finish his U.S. Give spell.

"I believe that if I'm fit to win the U.S. Area and hearty the career lordly thrash, I imagine that that's the opposition of the allover majuscule contestant," he said.

"I think there's quintuplet players that possess through that (won all four). And those quint players are the greats of the gallinacean. You sensing at them in a opposite lamplit. I'm real aspirant that I faculty the U.S. Exterior.