In a career full of moments, Phil Mickelson’s now signature one fittingly came with a wedge in his hand.
He’d arrived at the final round of the PGA Championship with a 1-stroke lead that no one thought would hold. Not with the major assassin Brooks Koepka walking alongside.
A rocky start (two bogeys in his first three holes) only reaffirmed the prevailing sentiment that at 50 years old, Mickelson contending at a major was a fun story that would end with a fizzle.
Then came the moment.
It happened at the par-3 fifth. Mickelson had sprayed his tee shot into the sand next to the green.