Mickelson: 'I've won enough already'

Phil Mickelson is not bothering to come to this week's American Express World Championship at Valderrama, because he's already won enough money, thank you.

In fact, despite a million dollar first prize, a dozen of golf's top players will not be going to Spain.

Mickelson scratched, as he said he would, after beating Tiger Woods by two shots in the Tour Championship in Atlanta yesterday.

The £900,000 prize he won in Atlanta makes the left-hander safe in second place on the American money list and, since he has no chance of catching Woods, Mickelson sees no reason to fly across the Atlantic for one week.

Instead he will content himself with a week at home with wife and baby.

David Duval, Hal Sutton, Tom Lehman, Paul Azinger, Fred Couples, Greg Norman and the injured Jim Furyk had already pulled out and Davis Love III is also skipping a return to the course where as USPGA champion he lost all his four games in the 1997 Ryder Cup.