Phil Mickelson still has a golf bucket list item to check off

Phil Mickelson is currently one of the longest-tenured LIV Golf players. He’s also one of the oldest professional golfers excluding those on the PGA Tour Champions, a tour designed for retired players who are aging. To this day, there’s one thing the highly-accomplished golfer has yet to do.

LIV Golf’s Phil Mickelson still wants to accomplish one thing in golf

Phil Mickelson just finished third in a LIV Golf event. It’s his first time on the podium, but he wants to check a victory off the list. He admitted after the second round, so before he ended up on the podium, that he’d like to one day win. Beyond that, he’d like to win as a team.

“One of my goals is to win a LIV event. But the experience of sharing it with teammates… we’ve not won as a team. I’ve not ever won as a team in professional golf outside of the Ryder Cup, and even that was very few times, and it would mean a lot for — I think that would probably mean a little more, which is very unusual to say in a game that’s such an individual sport,” Mickelson revealed via Bro Bible.

Mickelson continued, saying, “That would be special for us, especially the way we’ve worked hard together to come back from a rough year to put it together and compete, and to have early success here in week three on LIV, again, there’s another final round, but we have the guys that can do it.”

For the team and individual events, Mickelson was denied by Sergio Garcia both times. Garcia won the individual event by four strokes, and Mickelson was in third. The win catapulted Garcia’s FireBalls GC to first, too, and it left Mickelson’s HyFlyers still searching for that win that would apparently even rival a Ryder Cup win.

HyFlyers was tied for third, so Mickelson’s brilliant outing was not enough to catapult them to victory or even a second-place finish, which means the legendary golfer is still searching for his first team LIV win. He may be searching for a while.