{"id":277,"date":"2004-11-24T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T00:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/mickelson_fires_59_wins_grand_slam_of_golf\/"},"modified":"2004-11-24T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T00:05:55","slug":"mickelson_fires_59_wins_grand_slam_of_golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/mickelson_fires_59_wins_grand_slam_of_golf","title":{"rendered":"Mickelson Fires 59, Wins Grand Slam of Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/pga\/phil_mickelson_iron.jpg\" height=\"326\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Phil Mickelson Iron\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Phil Mickelson, Masters winner, has joined the &#8217;59&#8217; club and won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pga.com\/grandslam\/2004\/leaderboard\/\" title=\"Leaderboard\" class=\"external external_icon\">2004 PGA Grand Slam of Golf<\/a>. The event, which features each of the year&#8217;s major winners, was played over two rounds at Hawaii&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pga.com\/grandslam\/2004\/course_overview.html\" title=\"Poipu Bay\" class=\"external external_icon\">Poipu Bay Golf Course<\/a> &#8211; no easy challenge at par 72, 7,081 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Phil&#8217;s round features birdies at 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18 and an eagle at 6. He parred the other six holes. Phil had a six-footer for 58 on the last, but slid the putt just past the hole. He had a tap-in for the 59.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the ultra-presigious &#8220;59 Club&#8221; now include the following<\/p>\n<pre>Al Geiberger           1977\nChip Beck              1991\nDavid Duval            1999\nAnnika Sorenstam       2001\nPhil Mickelson         2004<\/pre>\n<p>Phil ended up at -17. Vijay Singh finished second at -12, birdieing the last to secure that spot, while Retief Goosen finished at -11. Todd Hamilton finished with a 75 to end up at +1 for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Is Phil&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/clubs\/mickelson_drops_titleist_signs_with_callaway\/\" title=\"Phil Drops Titleist, Joins Callaway\">switch to Callaway<\/a> finally starting to pay off!!!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. A day later, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/golf\/news\/story?id=1931417\" title=\"ESPN.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">ESPN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegolfchannel.com\/core.aspx?page=15100&amp;select=14969\" title=\"TGC\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Golf Channel<\/a> provide coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Mickelson misses a six-footer for 58, taps in for 59, and wins the 2004 Grand Slam of Golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mickelson Fires 59, Wins Grand Slam of Golf (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/mickelson_fires_59_wins_grand_slam_of_golf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mickelson Fires 59, Wins Grand Slam of Golf (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Phil Mickelson misses a six-footer for 58, taps in for 59, and wins the 2004 Grand Slam of Golf.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/imgs\/pga\/phil_mickelson_iron.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erik J. 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