MICKELSON RECEIVES OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

This week OWGR Chairman Peter Dawson presented Phil Mickelson with an Outstanding Achievement Award during the 148th Open Championship. The American achieved 25 consecutive years inside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking in November 2018.

The five-time Major winner is one of the most celebrated players in the modern era, having claimed 37 titles on the PGA Tour, three World Golf Championships victories and two further wins on the European Tour, a total of 47 victories.

Three of his five Major victories have come in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National, in 2004, 2006 and 2010, while he also triumphed at the 87th US PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in 2005.

The 48-year old’s most recent Major triumph came in The 142nd Open Championship in 2013, at Muirfield Golf Links.

Mickelson’s 25 years – 1305 consecutive weeks - inside the world’s top 50 signifies his remarkable consistency, with 167 top ten finishes in the 662 OWGR Eligible Tournaments in which he has competed worldwide.

Having first entered the World Rankings in 1988, Mickelson broke into the top 50 on November 28, 1993, when a runner-up finish to Tom Lehman in the Japan Golf Tour’s Casio World Open elevated him to 47th position in the world.

Between 1996 and 2014, the Californian spent a total of 774 weeks inside the world’s top ten, while between 2001 and 2013 he spent a cumulative total of 269 weeks in second place – Tiger Woods having been number one in all of those weeks.

All Time - No. of Consecutive weeks in the World Top 50

Current World Top 50 – No. of Consecutive weeks in the World Top 50