KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- It's not quite the same storyline that enveloped another major championship. The backdrop there was whether or not a beeper in his golf bag would go off at any moment, summoning him home.
But Phil Mickelson requesting that a drone be removed from his line of flight when sizing up his second shot to the fourth hole at the Ocean Course on Saturday in the third round of the PGA Championship put in perspective the longevity of his career.
Mickelson won a PGA Tour event as an amateur 30 years ago, one sponsored by a telecommunications company whose main business at the time was not cell phones.