By mustang6560 on 7/31/13

In his dreams, Phil Mickelson is the 2013 U.S. Open champion.

No, seriously.

Lefty admitted as much in his pre-WGC-Bridgestone Invitational press conference yesterday.

"I'm going to share something with you. When I woke up (before Sunday's final round), I had dreamt that I had already won the U.S. Open, and so I had the same feelings and excitement that I had won. I finally won the U.S. Open; it was such a great feeling," Mickelson said. "And it took me over a minute to realize that I haven't played the final round and that I've got to go out and still do it."

The unconscious mind can be so cruel!

The 2014 U.S. Open is nearly a year away, but as Peter Alliss said in the waning moments of the Open Championship coverage, now that Phil is three-quarters of the way to the career slam, I bet he and Bones essentially move to North Carolina to start preparing for Pinehurst.


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