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There are not very many tournaments Phil Mickelson hasn't already added to his hall-of-fame resume, but the FedEx St. Jude Classic is one that has eluded Lefty. He doesn't quite have the history at TPC Southwind as he has at, say, the U.S. Open where he's finished in the top five an incredible eight (!) times. But Mickelson does have three top fives in the last four years in Memphis without a win.

It seemed for a while on Saturday like this could be the year he finally got that win. Mickelson was 8 under and narrowly trailed the lead at the time after making birdie at No. 16 to get to 4 under on the day and on pace for a slick little 66. 

But he finished bogey-double bogey and fell back to 5 under for the week. He's not out of it as he sits T13 and trails leaders Ben Crane, Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Stewart Cink by just four strokes (they're all at 9 under), but Mickelson could have played his way into one of the final few groups if not for the closing two holes.

As it stands now, Mickelson will have to probably shoot 65 or 64 to win the tournament on Sunday. The good news for him is that he only has nine golfers between him and the three leaders, and none of them will leave Mickelson shaking in his alligator-skin golf shoes.

Mickelson has struggled with finishing out rounds and tournaments this year, though. He doesn't have a missed cut yet, but he only has two top 10s and has faded late in weeks time after time. Combine that with the fact that this is his third consecutive tournament, and it would be surprising if Mickelson was able to claw back on Sunday.

But what a win it would be for Mickelson, who is planning on skipping the U.S. Open at Erin Hills next week for his daughter Amanda's high school graduation. How insane would that storyline be heading into major No. 2 on the year? Mickelson, probably the second-best golfer in his generation, looking for the career slam and coming off a win skipping the U.S. Open.

As has been the case for so much of his career, Mickelson has struggled this week in Memphis off the tee. That's what befell him on Sunday when he doubled the last. Lefty pushed his tee ball badly, and it found a lake running up the left side of the 18th fairway. The resulting double was his second this week on his final hole of a round, and Mickelson is outside the top 50 in strokes gained with the big stick this week.

You could copy and paste his quote from Friday onto Saturday.

"Yeah, it's a disappointing way to finish the round," Mickelson said after finishing with double bogey on Friday. "I made a poor swing there and made double but I hit a lot of really good shots today and had a chance to shoot something really low ..."

He'll need that low score over the final 18 holes to get his first win in four years. And he'll need to close better than he has over the first three days. Mickelson is 5 over in his last five holes of each day and 10 under on the first 13 of each day.

Lefty said on Friday he thinks a super low number might be lurking at some point this week. The best to date is 64 by six different golfers. Mickelson will have to match that or better on Sunday to get win No. 43 of his career.