Mickelson Wins Before British Open as Teen Takes PGA Tour Title
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Phil Mickelson warmed up for this week’s British Open with his first win in Europe in 20 years, as he beat Branden Grace in a playoff at the Scottish Open.
Mickelson’s previous victory in a golf tournament on European soil came in 1993 -- two months before the birth of Jordan Spieth, who yesterday became the first teenager in 82 years to win a U.S. PGA Tour event. Spieth, 19, outlasted Zach Johnson and David Hearn to win the John Deere Classic on the fifth hole of a sudden-death playoff.