{"id":20582,"date":"2013-07-22T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/phil-mickelson-wins-his-first-british-open-and-fifth-major\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:02:23","slug":"phil-mickelson-wins-his-first-british-open-and-fifth-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/phil-mickelson-wins-his-first-british-open-and-fifth-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson wins his first British Open and fifth major"},"content":{"rendered":"

The golden left-hander, the American Phil Mickelson, has won the British Open, the third major of the season, played on the hard and fast Scottish course of Muirfield. The player from San Diego lifted his first Claret Jug and won his fifth major<\/em> a month after coming within a whisker of winning the US Open for the sixth time. <\/p>\n

Phil Mickelson, winner of the previous week\u2019s Scottish Open, was not the best placed, five shots off the lead, but for another day the greens<\/em> at Muirfield served up a battle between big names. \u201cToday was one of the best rounds I\u2019ve ever played \u2013 I was so good with the putt! I didn\u2019t know if I could ever win this tournament and I ended up playing one of the best rounds of my career,\u201d an emotional Mickelson said after lifting the British Open golf trophy. The Englishman Lee Westwood, former world number one, who started the day with a two-stroke lead<\/a> at the top of the British Open, succumbed to the pressure on Sunday and missed the chance to win his first Grand Slam title. Mickelson was the best, tamed and managed his putt<\/em> with mastery to sign a card of five under par on the decisive day and a total of minus three, with four birdies<\/em> in the last six holes. <\/p>\n

If a month ago, at the US Open, Merion devoured all the golfers, including Phil Mickelson who arrived at Sunday with the lead under his arm, at Muirfield only Lefty finished under par. The American, who came from his first victory in the British Isles last Sunday precisely in the Scottish Open, took three strokes ahead of Sweden\u2019s Henrik Stenson, second. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in one over par finished a crestfallen Westwood, an incredible Ian Poulter and a winner of a major this year Adam Scott. For his part, the world number one, Tiger Woods<\/a>, finished in sixth position and extended to 21 the number of majors that have passed without getting his teeth into any of them. An irregular last day left him once again without options to get closer to Jack Nicklaus\u2019 18 titles. <\/p>\n

Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez, who was unable to maintain the brilliance of the first two rounds, which gave him the provisional leadership of the tournament, was the best Spanish player at Muirfield and<\/span> finished 14th with 289 strokes, followed by his compatriot Eduardo de la Riva, with 290 and ranked 15th. Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Sergio Garcia shared, with 291 strokes, the 21st place, and Gonzalo Fernandez-Casta\u00f1o finished 54th, with 294 strokes. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The golden left-hander, the American Phil Mickelson, has won the British Open, the third major of the season, played on the hard and fast Scottish course of Muirfield. The player from San Diego lifted his first Claret Jug and won his fifth major a month after coming within a whisker of winning the US Open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}