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It is probably fair to say that 2018 won’t go down as one of the finest years in Phil Mickelson’s extraordinary career. 

It all started well enough, when he won his first PGA Tour title in almost five years at the WGC-Mexico Championship. However, since then, it has been a calamity of errors and PR disasters. 

Over the next few pages, we recall nine times that the five-time major champion got it badly wrong this year. 

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Michael McEwan is the Deputy Editor of bunkered and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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