PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Phil Mickelson is too old to win the U.S. Open.
History tells us that.
He is 48 years, seven months and 23 days old.
The U.S. Golf Association has staged 118 U.S. Opens, dating to 1895, and nobody as old as Mickelson has ever won the championship. In fact, nobody that old has ever won any major. Mickelson is already three months and five days older than Julius Boros was when Boros won the 1968 PGA Championship to become the oldest winner of a major.
And Mickelson will turn 49 on the same day as the final round of this year’s U.