Lefty Love: Phil Mickelson reacts to Scottie Scheffler's Open Championship win

On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler had a spectacular performance to secure his first career win at The Open Championship. After the event, legendary golfer Phil Mickelson congratulated Scheffler on his victory.

“Congrats to Scottie Scheffler on another impressive victory,” Mickelson wrote on X. “So many irons shots were amazing and what a putting performance.”

Mickelson has won six majors during his career, including The Open in 2013. While Scheffler hasn’t hauled in nearly as many career accomplishments as Mickelson yet, he doesn’t trail far behind and he has many years ahead of him.

Scheffler shot -17 at The Open after finishing in the Top 7 last year. He now boasts 22 professional wins and four victories at major championships. Scheffler took home $3.1 million for his win at The Open on Sunday.

Scheffler is undoubtedly elated to be back in the win column after failing to finish higher than the Top 6 at the past three events, including the U.S. Open, which he finished T7 at. Scheffler’s victory on Sunday will only reinforce his No. 1 world ranking that he’s held since March 27, 2022.

It’s been 1,197 days since Scheffler’s first major win — incredibly, the exact same amount of days between Tiger Woods’ first and fourth major wins. With the victory, Scheffler joins Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as the only players to win a Masters, PGA Championship and The Open before age 30.

While Scottie Scheffler is happy to take home The Open trophy, he might not be as content as some fans would assume. Earlier this week, Scheffler made headlines when he opened up on the lack of fulfillment that comes with being the best in the world.

“ I think it’s kind of funny,” Scheffler said. “I think I said something after the Byron this year [Nelson, which he won in a playoff in May] about it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling. And to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf, to have an opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it, you celebrate. You get to hug your family, my sisters there. It’s such an amazing moment. And then it’s like, ‘OK, now what are we going to eat for dinner?’

“You know, life goes on. It’s great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf … it brings tears to my eyes just to think about, because I’ve literally worked my entire life to become good at the sport and to have that kind of sense of accomplishment is a pretty cool feeling.”