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Phil Mickelson has five straight birdies on Fortinet back-nine, not 100% satisfied

With 18 holes left to play for Phil Mickelson on Tour in 2021, Lefty's in contention going into Sunday of the Fortinet Championship, but yet he wasn't fully content with his putting after Round 3.

Aside from his 2021 PGA Championship win and a T-17 at the 66-player WGC-FedEx St. Jude, Lefty only has two top 10 finishes since the start of the 2019-20 season, but a third is in his sights after five birdies on the final six holes in Napa Valley showed once again the 51-year-old doesn't always play his age.

Those birdies helped Mickelson jump eight spots up the leaderboard to T-8, four strokes off the lead, but his two bogeys on No.