He erased his compatriot Julius Boros, who won the USPGA at 48 in 1968 from the shelves. American Phil Mickelson achieved a historic feat, becoming at 50 the oldest golfer to win a Grand Slam tournament, after winning the PGA Championship Sunday in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

This coronation in Major is the sixth of his career.

Winner of this event for the first time in 2005, the Augusta Masters (2004, 2006 and 2010), as well as the British Open (2013), he finished at -6 and kept two strokes ahead of his compatriot Brooks Koepka, who broke down after starting the day in the lead, and South African Louis Oosthuizen.

PGA Championship - Mickelson the eternal



Phil Mickelson became the oldest winner of a Grand Slam golf tournament on Sunday, winning the PGA Championship in South Carolina at age 50 pic.twitter.com/MjIIca4PQj

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“It's just an amazing feeling,” Mickelson confessed upon receiving his trophy.

"I don't think I have had such an experience before, so thank you for that, it's a little disconcerting but above all great".

Under the gaze of alligators

Mickelson tamed better than his competitors the sometimes violent wind which never ceased to sweep the so versatile Ocean Course, the longest course in history (7,876 yards, 7,201 meters) for a Grand Slam tournament!

Proof that this tall fellow (1.91 m, 91 kg) has never weakened physically under his cap and his reflective sunglasses, despite the heat, humidity and the distance to keep, under the gaze of the alligators masters of the places in swamps adjoining the greens.

“I thought it was possible, but everyone said it wasn't.

I hope others will be inspired by it.

It might take a lot of work but, my God, it's worth it, ”he said.

Tiger Woods (45), a man of unlikely comebacks, currently recovering from a serious car accident which broke his right leg, reacted on Twitter: "It's a real inspiration to see Phil Mickelson do it again at 50.

Congratulations !!!!!!!

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Sixteen years separate this coronation from the previous one at the USPGA, won by the former world No. 2 who dropped back to 115th place last week, the longest gap between two victories in the same Major.

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