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Article: Odd pair: Butter-soft Phil, edgy New Yorkers; New York Open galleries love to cheer Mickelson
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2006
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MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) - They're tough as nails, they like grit
more than polish and they pull for players who grind it out and can
take whatever the back pages of the tabloids throw at them.
He's marshmallow soft, all smiles and shrugs, and lives a life of
leisure with his picture-perfect family on the Left Coast.
New Yorkers and Phil Mickelson: Common sense says they shouldn't
love each other, but for some reason, they do. And never more so than
when the U.S. Open, which happens to coincide each year with
Mickelson's birthday, comes back to the Big Apple.
They sang "Happy Birthday" to him at Bethpage. They chanted his
name at Shinnecock. This year, the course is Winged Foot, just a
quick ...