ORLANDO, Fla. – Keith Mitchell had 1.224 million reasons not to take exception to the local newspaper’s headline Monday morning declaring him the “No-Name Champion” of the Honda Classic.
And besides, he’s been accumulating slights like these over the years; he says it’s what helped propel him to his breakthrough victory.
“It was definitely a part of me winning,” he said Tuesday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “I just used it as a potential to keep playing well to hopefully, one day, my name might be on the headline and it will be familiar.”
Though he said he didn’t “take any negative light” about the headline – for which the Palm Beach Post later apologized and said was in poor taste – Mitchell’s friends, family and peers were more upset.