Phil Mickelson has a knack for finding creative routes to good places.
He is commuting from his home in Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, by flying his own plane into Santa Monica Airport, to play in the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club.
While legions of others spend a couple of hours just negotiating the three miles up Sunset Boulevard from the course to the 405 Freeway (and that's not exaggerating), Mickelson makes it from door to course in 75 minutes.
And once on the course, Mickelson has also found the right spots, sometimes from far-away places, twice holing out from off the green Friday
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