Phil Mickelson and Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor have something in common.
They are both long shots.
The odds on the 50-year-old Mickelson winning the PGA championship were +30000, which is another way of saying that a $100 bet would yield $30,000 were Mickelson to win. That works out to odds of 300 to 1.
Well, guess what? Mickelson bucked the odds and won.
Oh, by the way, Mickelson is not even close to being the longest long shot to win a sports title. In 1980, the odds of the U.