Time out: Lefty will not surpass Tiger in 2010

With Phil Mickelson's impressive victory in the Tour Championship two months ago and his performance this past week in China, some believe Lefty will surpass Tiger Woods as the best player in the game in 2010.Nonsense. Lefty will find a way to make the wrong mistakes at the wrong time and remain how he will be forever defined: a tremendous player, even a Hall of Fame-caliber player (he'll likely finish with about 50 victories), but nowhere in the class of Mr. Woods. Nobody is. That is no crime.Mickelson had his chance in the June 2006, and then came the Massacre at Winged Foot. If he had made one more lousy par on the 72nd hole of the Open, he would have recorded his third straight major victory and a legitimate case could have been made that he had surpassed Woods, at least temporarily.Since then, Mickelson has failed to capture a major in 13 appearances, and that is how greatness in golf is measured, not in winning Tour Championships and certainly not in winning a European...