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GULLANE -- One of the greatest final rounds in a major. Two of the best shots he ever struck with a 3-wood. The third leg of the Grand Slam. Phil Mickelson never imagined any of this happening at the British Open. No wonder he never took his hand off the base of that silver claret jug as he talked about the best Sunday he ever had at a major. Five shots out of the lead, Mickelson blew past Tiger Woods, caught up to Lee Westwood and Masters champion Adam Scott, and won golfs oldest championship with the lowest final round in his 80 majors. With four birdies over the last six holes, Mickelson closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-shot win over Henrik Stenson. No longer is he mystified by links golf, and he has his name etched in that jug to prove it. "This is such an accomplishment for me because I just never knew if Id be able to develop the game to play links golf effectively," Mickelson said. "To play the best round arguably of my career, to putt better than Ive ever putted, to shoot the round of my life ... it feels amazing to win the claret jug." Introduced as the "champion golfer of the year," he held the oldest trophy in golf over his head to show it off to one side of the massive grandstand lining the 18th green at Muirfield, and then the other. An hour earlier, they gave the 43-year-old Mickelson the loudest ovation of the week as he walked up the final fairway. He drained an 8-foot birdie putt and thrust his arms in the air, hugged caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay and whispered to him, "I did it." After signing for the lowest final round ever at Muirfield, Mickelson huddled with his wife and three children -- back from a quick holiday to Spain -- for a long embrace and waited for the others to finish. Westwood, who started the day with a two-shot lead, fell behind for the first time all day with a bogey on the par-3 13th hole and never recovered, closing with a 75. Scott took the outright lead with a 4-foot birdie on the 11th, and then closed as sloppily as he did last year when he threw away the Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He made four straight bogeys starting at the 13th, and a final bogey on the 18th gave him a 72. At least he has a green jacket from the Master to console him. Woods, in his best position to win a major since the crisis in his personal life, stumbled badly on his way to a 74 and was never a serious challenger. "We know that he goes for broke, and if thats how he was feeling and pulling it off, hes got the ability to do that," Scott said about Mickelson. "And hes gone and won an Open easily. So every credit to him." At the end of a rough-and-tumble week along the Firth of Forth, Mickelson was the only player under par at 3-under 281. In his four other majors -- three Masters and one PGA Championship -- he had never started the final round more than one shot behind. "I dont care either way how I got this trophy -- I got it," Mickelson said. "And it just so happened to be with one of the best rounds of my career, which is really the way Ive played my entire career. Ive always tried to go out and get it. I dont want anybody to hand it to me. I want to go out and get it. And today, I did." Westwood, whose only other 54-hole lead in a major ended with Mickelson winning the Masters, paid tribute to Lefty for what will go down as one of the great closing rounds in a major. "When you birdie four of the last six of a round any day, thats good going," Westwood said. "With a decent breeze blowing and some tough flags out there, its obviously a pretty good experience. When you do it in a major championship, its an even better experience." But this major? Phil Mickelson? He had only contended twice in two decades at golfs oldest championship. One week after he won the Scottish Open in a playoff on the links-styled course of Castle Stuart, Mickelson was simply magical on the back nine of a brown, brittle Muirfield course that hasnt played this tough since 1966. Tied for the lead, Mickelson smashed a 3-wood onto the green at the par-5 17th to about 25 feet for a two-putt birdie, and finished in style with a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th to match the lowest score of this championship. "Those two 3-woods were the two best shots of the week, to get it on that green," Mickelson said. "As I was walking up to the green, that was when I realized that this is very much my championship in my control. And I was getting a little emotional. I had to kind of take a second to slow down my walk and try to regain composure." Mickelson figured a par on the 18th would be tough for anyone to catch him. When the ball dropped in the centre of the cup, he raised both arms in the air to celebrate his fifth career major, tying him with the likes of Seve Ballesteros and Byron Nelson. "Best round Ive ever seen him play," said his caddie, Jim "Bones" Mackay. His final surge was right about the time Westwood and Scott began to fold. Scott, trying to join an exclusive list of players who have won a green jacket and a claret jug in the same year, made a remarkable recovery from the dunes right of the par-3 13th hole, only to miss the 7-foot par putt. He took three putts for bogeys on the next two holes -- from long range on the 14th, and from 20 feet on the 15th -- and found a bunker on the next. Westwood started to lose his grip on the jug with bogeys on the seventh and eighth, and failing to birdie the downwind, par-5 ninth. Presented with birdie chances early on the back nine, his putting stroke began to look tentative. Westwood and Scott tied for third with Ian Poulter, who played a four-hole stretch in 5-under around the turn and closed with a 67. At 1-over 285, he cancelled a flight home in case of a playoff. Moments later, with Mickelson pulling away, the outcome was clear. Jack Nicklaus said on Twitter, "Phils round was incredible. After his bad break on 16 and to then get up and down showed a lot of guts. And the two great shots at 17 ended the tournament." Making this even sweeter for Mickelson is that just one month ago he lost out on yet another chance to win the U.S. Open, the missing link of a career Grand Slam. Mickelson twice made bogey with wedge in his hand on the back nine at Merion and had his record sixth runner-up finish. Woods, Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen are the only players to win all four professional majors. Mickelson figured it would be the British Open that would hold him back. Now he has the jug, and he never took his hand off it during his press conference. "I think that if Im able to win the U.S. Open and complete the career Grand Slam, I think that thats the sign of the complete, great player," Mickelson said. "And Im a leg away. And its been a tough leg for me." For now, Mickelson takes his place among an elite list of winners at Muirfield, which is considered the fairest of the links on the British Open rotation. All but two of the Open champions at Muirfield are in the World Hall of Fame. Mickelson is the only winner who already has been inducted. It was the 43rd win of his PGA Tour career. The guy who once couldnt win the big one now has five majors in the last nine years. This one returns him to No. 2 in the world ranking for the first time in nearly three years. Woods, meanwhile, now has gone 17 majors without winning, and that pursuit of Nicklaus and his benchmark of 18 majors -- Woods is stuck on 14 -- doesnt look any closer. 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ATLANTA -- Its the second day of ELeague and two teams face elimination: Immortals, the second best team from Brazil, and Europes FaZe Clan, a team that just replaced Fabien kioShiMa Fiey with former Astralis in-game leader Finn karrigan Andersen.The map draw is out -- Mirage, Train and Overpass -- and many say the matchup favors Immortals. FaZe unexpectedly come out strong early, putting down Immortals 16-2 on Mirage, a map which Immortals chose in the draw, in a game that didnt even look like a competition. But Immortals bounce back on Train, which has historically favored FaZe. The series is tied 1-1.Going into the final map, the playing field is slightly in favor of Immortals. At halftime, the teams are tied 8-7. The two squads continue to battle back and forth until the game comes to a 16-13 close. FaZe is the victor and they move on to face Cloud9. But while the team beats Immortals and later Cloud9, adopting karrigan has changed what they were best at; the team has a new identity and its still trying to figure it out.In the end, I think its pretty good because we get more practice and we get to know each other way more, karrigan tells ESPN. We played six, seven maps this tournament and thats exactly what we practiced before coming here, so Im pretty happy that we came through the best-of-threes, coming through these marathon matches; we can learn from mistakes and the map picks we had. Definitely not going to pick Train right now because we need to fix that.Karrigan joined FaZe after the team had a rough year, similar to that of his former team Astralis. The latter benched karrigan on Oct. 11, per coach Danny zonic S?rensens decision, leaving him inactive for a short period of time.Me, my team, and the coach found out that we wanted to play differently, karrigan says. In the end, I couldnt see my play the way they wanted to play as a team. I didnt feel comfortable in that, and they didnt feel comfortable in the way I was calling. [...] Thats why we decided that we couldnt keep on and thats why I got benched.Earlier last week, he transferred to FaZe and immediately flew to Atlanta to play. With only two days of practice, FaZe managed to join mousesports as the second team to qualify for the ELeague playoffs out of Group A. Karrigan says part of that is because the team has given him reign to reassign players to new roles and fix a team that has failed to make a deep playoff run this year.Wheen I joined Team SoloMid back in the day, it was the same situation for me; I get everything I want, everyones listening to me, and the whole trust around me is there.dddddddddddd. And that didnt happen in Astralis, in the end, because of the way we wanted to play as a team, he says. I think thats the big difference for me is that I actually have a team again where I feel reborn as an in-game leader and actually can think and call how I want. Thats really important for me as a player and to underline that, Im still a good in-game leader.But unlike Astralis, which once was a Danish powerhouse team in 2015 under the Team SoloMid banner, FaZe Clan is a multi-national team. Its players hail from different parts of Europe and speak various different languages, something uncommon in European Counter-Strike. For karrigan, he says it was an attracting factor that led him to this team. Moving forward, he just wants the team to fix its past mistakes and improve slowly, even if there are setbacks along the way.The team will travel to S?o Paulo, Brazil this week to compete in the ESL Pro League finals. There, theyll meet fellow European foes Ninjas in Pyjamas and Team Dignitas, as well as North Americas Cloud9, NRG Esports and SK Gaming.I think that the most important thing is to move in the right direction. Even if we get set back and lose all the matches [at ESL Pro League finals] in Brazil, I still think that itll work slowly and just because we lose a best-of-three doesnt mean we dont qualify for playoffs in Pro League, he says. I think that one step at a time, baby steps, learn from mistakes, learn the way we want to play. As long as the team believes in me, I believe in them and pass that around the team. I think we can do wonders.And in December, the team will compete in a major qualifier for a chance to return to Atlanta for the ELeague major in January at the Fox Theatre. The biggest thing we want to aim at is the major, Karrigan says. First of all, we have to go through a major qualifier, which is a major within itself if you look at the teams, so thats going to be pretty hard; that is the main goal for us. And we get on the other side of the New Year, then I want to make different goals. But right now, take baby steps, take one tournament at a time, learn from mistakes. 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