the Barclays 2014
The Barclays 2014: Phil Mickelson arrives at Ridgewood hoping to salvage poor 2014 season
By Brendan Prunty/The Star-Ledger
on August 19, 2014 at 5:13 PM, updated August 19, 2014 at 11:56 PM
Phil Mickelson has already written off 2014.
That is not speculation or conjecture, it is fact. Mickelson himself admitted as much yesterday afternoon, standing in the thicket of towering oak trees off the right side of the 18th fairway at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus. He acknowledges that this season has been one to forget. That even though he almost won a PGA Championship in the process, he arrives at The Barclays this week to begin the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs already looking ahead to next year.
“I’m actually more looking forward to 2015 and after these next few events — after the Ryder Cup — I’ll probably take the rest of the year off,” Mickelson said. “Work on my fitness, work on my golf game and really focus on 2015. Because 2015 is when the points start accumulating really for the (2016) Olympics.”
You will not see Mickelson attaching a white flag to the end of his Callaway driver. He reiterated that he is here to win and win each week and win the FedEx Cup for the first time in his career. But this is a lost season for the lovable lefty, one that — at age 44 — has put things into focus even more clearly.
Yes, winning a second PGA Championship and a sixth career major would’ve been a great accomplishment.
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