Phil Mickelson managed to get Dustin Johnson to crack a rare smile as he told one his favourite Ryder Cup stories.

Rory McIlroy joined Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in an exclusive club with his victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Phil Mickelson admitted he was a newbie. YouTube, he said, hadn’t been a world he grew up in. “I’m trying to learn as we go,” he said last August in a conference call. So what can you expect?