{"id":21363,"date":"2013-07-24T12:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mickelson-aims-to-become-golfs-number-one\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:13:47","slug":"mickelson-aims-to-become-golfs-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mickelson-aims-to-become-golfs-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickelson aims to become golf\u2019s number one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=10353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10353 \" alt=\"Phil Mickelson: Open win was fifth major victory. Photo: Sky Sports\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/cc3f2_Phil-Mickelson-Open-Championship-pa-2_2976401.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Mickelson: Open win was fifth major victory. Photo: Sky Sports<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mickelson is determined to become the sixth man to complete a Grand Slam of major championship titles.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old stormed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/michelson-finally-wins-british-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">three-shot victory<\/a> in the Open Championship at Muirfield after a superb five-under 66 in the final round, adding the Claret Jug to his three Masters titles and one PGA Championship victory.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander has finished runner-up in the US Open six times, but he is determined to end that hoodoo and join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-magic-happens-at-muirfield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Player<\/a>, Jack Nicklaus and <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/woods-recalls-memorable-aura-of-mandela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> as winners of all four majors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that if I\u2019m able to win the US Open and complete the career Grand Slam, I think that that\u2019s the sign of the complete great player,\u201d said Mickelson. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.skysports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2013\/07\/22\/phil-mickelson-eyes-grand-slam-fast-plan-to-join-golfs-greatest-3893911\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/cc3f2_187232815_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2013\/07\/22\/phil-mickelson-eyes-grand-slam-fast-plan-to-join-golfs-greatest-3893911\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson eyes grand slam fast plan to join golf\u2019s greatest<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/golf\/23400614\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d5e6c_187013621_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/golf\/23400614\" target=\"_blank\">Mickelson finds the missing link<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1711916-phil-mickelson-gains-golfing-immortality-with-open-win-at-muirfield\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d5e6c_187198779_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1711916-phil-mickelson-gains-golfing-immortality-with-open-win-at-muirfield\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson Gains Golfing Immortality with Open Win at Muirfield<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d5e6c_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Mickelson: Open win was fifth major victory. Photo: Sky Sports Phil Mickelson is determined to become the sixth man to complete a Grand Slam of major championship titles. The 43-year-old stormed to a three-shot victory in the Open Championship at Muirfield after a superb five-under 66 in the final round, adding the Claret Jug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}