Welcome to our coverage of the Awe on the Shore, in which Phil Mickelson attempts to win the 103rd PGA Championship at the Ocean Course, Kiawah Island. If he pulls it off, the 50-year-old from San Diego will become the oldest ever winner of a men’s major golf championship, beating a record held for 53 years by Julius Boros. This literally could be one for the ages.

Boros was 48 when he won the 1968 PGA Championship at sweltering Pecan Valley, San Antonio. He shot a final-day 69 under a mean old Texas sun, making a chasing pack featuring Arnold Palmer, Bob Charles, Billy Casper, Al Geiberger, Bob Goalby, Lou Graham and Doug Sanders dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in their heads. He refused to smile for photos, having chipped a tooth.

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