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Henrik Stenson, left, and Phil Mickelson at the 2016 Open Championship at Royal Troon. Getty Images Phil Mickelson is still confused. The math doesn’t add up.

At the 2016 Open Championship, he shot a sizzling 63 on day one at Royal Troon, then followed it up with a 69, a 70 and an outstanding final-round 65. Mickelson says he played his game, and he says when he played his game, it was game over. But he lost.



Henrik Stenson was three shots better, and two better in the final round. And Mickelson is still confounded. “Only time I can remember in my career where I played my absolute best golf and it wasn’t enough to win,” Mickelson said last week.

“As I look back, I’ve always tried to put it in my hands. Like if I play my game, if I play well, it will be good enough, and it always has been until that week, when I played my best and it wasn’t enough. “But yet, I still really enjoyed that week.

I look back on it fondly even though I didn’t win.” Thing is, he probably should’ve. Outside of Stenson, no one was within 11 shots of Mickelson — and examining that dominance could prove useful this week, when the Open returns to Troon , and you, the bettor, eye some bets.

One question is all we need. How they’d do it? Last week, Mickelson and Stenson had some thoughts, in response to a question about how play at LIV Golf’s event at Valderrama would ready them: — Wind play is key. “We are going to have a very windy day on Friday,” Mickelson said.

“So th.

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