College Golf
Mickelson attended Arizona State University in Tempe on a golf scholarship and graduated in 1992. While at ASU, he became the face of amateur golf in the United States, capturing three NCAA individual championships and three Haskins Awards (1990, 1991, 1992) as the outstanding collegiate golfer. He was the second collegiate golfer to earn first-team All-American honors all four years. In addition in 1990 he became the first left-hander to win the U.S. Amateur title. Perhaps his greatest achievement, however, came in 1991 at age 20 when he won his first PGA Tour event, the Northern Telecom Open, in Tucson. He did so as an amateur, becoming only the sixth player in PGA history to accomplish this feat, and the first since Scott Verplank, who won the 1985 Western Open. No one has since matched this achievement.
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