Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson: Get used to seeing them miss cuts
For just the second time in over 80 tournaments featuring both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, both legends missed the cut.
It was a disappointing week, to say the least for Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Both of them missed the cut at the US Open, leading to a rarely seen event taking place over the weekend.
For just the second time in 85 tournaments that featured both Tiger and Phil, neither one of them made the cut. This just isn’t something that we are used to seeing, as the two legends have been so good, for so long, that you expect at least one of them to make the cut.
Unfortunately for Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, this isn’t 2005.
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Phil Mickelson is eligible for the Champions Tour now. Tiger Woods is going to turn 45 right before the end of the year. Both men are well past their prime, and are entering, if not already in, the twilight of their careers.
Neither of them are done by any stretch of the imagination. Phil has had plenty of tournaments where he has been in contention, T-2nd at last years St. Jude as well as 3rd at Pebble.
Tiger Woods, regardless of what some would say are struggles recently, is still the defending champion of The Masters. He also won the Zozo Championship last fall. Don’t forget that he won the Tour Championship in 2018, and put together a 64 to finish 2nd at the PGA Championship that year as well.
It’s less likely for Phil, but both of these men are still capable of contending whenever they show up. “Contending” is the key word here. No longer are they front-runners or favorites. If either of them are going to win, they need to put together four good rounds in a row, with very few slip-ups.
There are going to be more and more events where we see them missing the cut. Then again, the number of “85” might not change that much, as both play a much more open schedule. Tiger is focusing on majors, and Phil… well, he is just out there being Phil.
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Am I going to stop rooting for Tiger Woods? Should you going to stop rooting for Phil Mickelson? No, we shouldn’t… it’s just going to be a lot less likely that we see them at the top of the leaderboard, much less both making the cut when they enter tournaments.