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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. -- Phil Mickelson isn't sure what's next for Jim "Bones" Mackay. He is sure there are going to be plenty of options for his longtime caddie.

Mickelson and Mackay announced last week they had decided to split up after 25 years and more than 600 tournaments around the world, ending one of golf's most successful relationships.

Mickelson's brother Tim is going to caddie for him for the rest of the year, and Lefty thinks there will be no shortage of potential suitors for Mackay.

"He's going to have some incredible opportunities," Mickelson said Monday in his first public comments since the split. "There's going to be a great player -- a lot of great players, but one great player's going to be lucky enough to have him and he's going to bring a lot to his game and they're going to be a great team. And then it gives me an opportunity to spend time with my brother for the rest of this year, which I'm looking forward to."

Tim Mickelson was the golf coach at Arizona State before he left the position to become Jon Rahm's agent, and Phil Mickelson thanked Rahm for approving his brother's new schedule. Tim Mickelson also carried his big brother's bag during the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship when Mackay went down with a stomach virus.

Asked if Mackay will start working for Rahm, Phil Mickelson said he had no idea and didn't want to speculate on Mackay's next job.

"He's not told me anything and I think that he's going to have a lot of players call him and inquire about his services," Mickelson said. "That would be what I would anticipate. But I don't know."

Mickelson, who celebrated his 47th birthday on June 16, and Mackay started working together at a U.S. Open qualifier in Memphis, Tennessee in 1992. Mickelson was hoping to have their final round together at this year's U.S. Open, but he skipped the tournament to attend his oldest daughter's high school graduation in California.

Mackay went to Erin Hills in Wisconsin to scout the course in case a weather delay would have allowed Mickelson to make his tee time, but it didn't work out. Instead, their last round was in the FedEx St. Jude Classic.

"We knew that final round in Memphis that that was our last round together -- or most likely," Mickelson said. "We were holding out hope that it wasn't, that we had one more week, and it was an emotional day. But we both know it's time."

Mickelson joined LPGA stars Brooke Henderson, Lydia Ko and Stacy Lewis for a skills challenge at Olympia Fields on Monday ahead of this weekend's KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Mickelson and KPMG also announced a donation by the Phil and Amy Mickelson Foundation to the company's future leaders program, which awards college scholarships to young women and brings them to Stanford University for a leadership development retreat.

Mickelson signed autographs for about a half-hour after winning the skills competition, which included a couple different chipping contests and a knockout game involving images of each player behind plates of glass.

"I was nervous because I know how good they are," he said, "and it was fun because it gave me an opportunity to be around some of the best players in the world, best athletes in the world."

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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill.

Phil Mickelson isn't sure what's next for Jim "Bones" Mackay. He is sure there are going to be plenty of options for his longtime caddie.

Mickelson and Mackay announced last week they had decided to split up after 25 years and more than 600 tournaments around the world, ending one of golf's most successful relationships.

Mickelson's brother Tim is going to caddie for him for the rest of the year, and Lefty thinks there will be no shortage of potential suitors for Mackay.

"He's going to have some incredible opportunities," Mickelson said Monday in his first public comments since the split. "There's going to be a great player a lot of great players, but one great player's going to be lucky enough to have him and he's going to bring a lot to his game and they're going to be a great team. And then it gives me an opportunity to spend time with my brother for the rest of this year, which I'm looking forward to."

Tim Mickelson was the golf coach at Arizona State before he left the position to become Jon Rahm's agent, and Phil Mickelson thanked Rahm for approving his brother's new schedule. Tim Mickelson also carried his big brother's bag during the Mexico Championship when Mackay went down with a stomach virus.

Asked if Mackay will start working for Rahm, Phil Mickelson said he had no idea and didn't want to speculate on Mackay's next job.

"He's not told me anything and I think that he's going to have a lot of players call him and inquire about his services," Mickelson said. "That would be what I would anticipate. But I don't know."

Mickelson, who celebrated his 47th birthday on June 16, and Mackay started working together at a U.S. Open qualifier in Memphis, Tennessee in 1992. Mickelson was hoping to have their final round together at this year's U.S. Open, but he skipped the tournament to attend his oldest daughter's high school graduation in California.

Mackay went to Erin Hills in Wisconsin to scout the course in case a weather delay would have allowed Mickelson to make his tee time, but it didn't work out. Instead, their last round was in the St. Jude Classic in Memphis.

"We knew that final round in Memphis that that was our last round together or most likely," Mickelson said. "We were holding out hope that it wasn't, that we had one more week, and it was an emotional day. But we both know it's time."

Mickelson joined LPGA stars Brooke Henderson, Lydia Ko and Stacy Lewis for a skills challenge at Olympia Fields on Monday ahead of this weekend's KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

Mickelson and KPMG also announced a donation by the Phil and Amy Mickelson Foundation to the company's future leaders program, which awards college scholarships to young women and brings them to Stanford University for a leadership development retreat.

Mickelson signed autographs for about a half-hour after winning the skills competition, which included a couple different chipping contests and a knockout game involving images of each player behind plates of glass.

"I was nervous because I know how good they are," he said, "and it was fun because it gave me an opportunity to be around some of the best players in the world, best athletes in the world."

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WELLINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland was always going to show his hand most obviously in his midfield selection and moving Owen Farrell into the centres for the second test against the All Blacks was a statement of intent.

The hard-running duo of Jonathan Davies and Ben Te'o made up a successful centre partnership in the 30-15 loss in the tour opener but Gatland has clearly concluded that attack is going to be the best form of defence in Wellington.

While the Lions made several line breaks during the first test in Auckland, they still ended up 3-2 losers in the try-scoring count and Saturday's test is one they must win to retain any hope of claiming the three-match series.

Ireland's Jonathan Sexton will therefore come in at flyhalf and start in tandem with Farrell for the first time on this tour as the Lions look to take the game to the All Blacks from the backline.

"From an attacking perspective it has given us more of an attack with the 10-12 combination," Gatland explained on Thursday.

"We looked at it. They haven't started together but they have spent a bit of time together. Their combination against the Crusaders was good and they had a bit of time together last weekend as well.

"It just gives us two ball players, two kicking options. A first and second receiver and we have two left foot options with Jonathan Davies and Elliot Daly as well.

"We're happy with the mix."

If there is a downside to the selection it is the loss at inside centre of Te'o, who made plenty of hard yards with ball in hand in Auckland and kept his fellow former rugby league player Sonny Bill Williams relatively quiet.

"Ben has done really well. He has carried well. Defended well. It was a tough call. He will get some time off the bench, but we made a call based on the opportunities we created and think we stretched the All Blacks at times," Gatland added.

"We also have to do a defensive job on Sonny Bill Williams as well. He came pretty direct at us, got a couple of offloads away so it will be important we shut him down."

Gatland said the rain forecast for Saturday in the New Zealand capital may yet change the gameplan but whatever approach the tourists took to the match, they had to leave everything on the pitch.

"It's definitely a knockout game, you lose on Saturday and the series is over," he said.

"We're all pretty aware of that." (Writing by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney; Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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A violent gang attack of two women on the Lewis McManus Trail in Beckley in May 2015 by the so-called "Knockout Boys" may have been a social media stunt that went too far, one of the suspect's defense attorneys told jurors during opening statements on Tuesday.

Yoshua "Yoshi" Dewall, now 20, was 18 when he was arrested by agents of Beckley Police Department and U.S. Marshals' Office in June 2015 on a charge of first-degree robbery, two counts of malicious wounding and one count of a conspiracy to commit a felony in connection.

His trial is before Raleigh County Circuit Judge Robert Burnside.

Police arrested Dewall and an alleged co-conspirator, Kasey Stewart, now 21, for the attacks on Crystal Stracener and Delia Marsh of Beckley. They are two of several men who allegedly participated in the beating of the two victims on the trail near New River Park. According to police reports, the men also laughed and danced in circles during the assault.

Stewart, who is serving a two to 10-year sentence for the attacks after pleading guilty in July 2015 to malicious assault, identified Dewall's role in the attacks.

Jerrad Alan McGhee, 30, and Wayne Scott Cassidy, 27, both of Beckley, were also charged with malicious wounding, first degree robbery and conspiracy to commit a felony for their alleged roles in the assaults.

Raleigh Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Brandon Steele said Dewall had conspired with Stewart to beat the two victims and stole property from them, but defense attorney Mike Froble told jurors there was no robbery.

"We know and we're not going to contest that these two girls got beat up," Froble said. "It was an attack.

"There is no robbery."

Froble also contested that prosecutors could prove that Dewall had conspired with Stewart to beat up the women and maliciously attack them.

"Was this a bunch of drunk and intoxicated kids putting something on youtube and media that they thought was funny ... and it got out of hand?" Froble asked jurors. "Maybe they didn't intend to beat them up that bad.

"Maybe they were doing what they thought was fun in their intoxicated state, and it got out of hand."

Froble also challenged what became known locally as the "Knockout Boys."

"There was no 'Knockout Boys,' " Froble said.

A "knockout game" on Facebook in 2015 encouraged players to randomly target and strike unsuspecting victims.

Police photos taken after the attack showed large, copiously bleeding wounds to Stracener's forehead and the back of her head and a dark, bloody gash on the back of Marsh's head.

In a photo displayed for jurors Tuesday, Stracener's face was covered in blood.

Stracener and Marsh were walking from Wilbrian Apartments on Ewart Avenue back to their home on May 26, 2015, when they encountered two men at the park entrance.

As the victims tried to walk by the men, several more men came out of the woods and surrounded them. According to courtroom statements, the men hit the victims in the head with a pair of brass knuckles, punched and kicked them and beat them with sticks.

The victims were able to reach Little General where they notified police of the attacks around 10:15 p.m.

"They said they'd been attacked with brass knuckles and sticks," BPD Officer Ryan Cuevas testified Tuesday. "They were going in and out of consciousness.

"They were bleeding profusely," he said. "They'd just been attacked, brutally."

Stracener, now 36, could identify only "Yoshi," or Dewall, on the night of the attacks, said Cuevas.

According to Steele, the two women were robbed of their cell phones, wallets, house keys and medications.

Stewart was arrested June 12 after he called the Beckley PD to see if he had any warrants on file. In an interview with BPD Detective Dave Allard, Stewart said he was under the influence of two different cough syrups and that he had been part of a group of men who had attacked the victims, according to statements by Steele.

Dewall was arrested June 11.

A witness told police that McGhee bragged to him about beating up two women near New River Park.

Later, Stewart identified Dewall, McGhee and Cassidy and two male juveniles who allegedly attacked Stracener and Marsh.

In his opening statement Tuesday, Steele said the attacks occurred after a suspect exchanged heated words with one of the victims.

"Brandon Steele says there's heated words," Froble said. "That's because there's a history."

He said there is no proof that Stracener and Marsh were robbed.

Froble said the attacks on Stracener and Marsh happened during a time that victims were reporting "knockouts" on several Beckley trails in the "Rails to Trails" system.

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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) Phil Mickelson isn't sure what's next for Jim "Bones" Mackay. He is sure there are going to be plenty of options for his longtime caddie.

Mickelson and Mackay announced last week they had decided to split up after 25 years and more than 600 tournaments around the world, ending one of golf's most successful relationships.

Mickelson's brother Tim is going to caddie for him for the rest of the year, and Lefty thinks there will be no shortage of potential suitors for Mackay.

"He's going to have some incredible opportunities," Mickelson said Monday in his first public comments since the split. "There's going to be a great player a lot of great players, but one great player's going to be lucky enough to have him and he's going to bring a lot to his game and they're going to be a great team. And then it gives me an opportunity to spend time with my brother for the rest of this year, which I'm looking forward to."

Tim Mickelson was the golf coach at Arizona State before he left the position to become Jon Rahm's agent, and Phil Mickelson thanked Rahm for approving his brother's new schedule. Tim Mickelson also carried his big brother's bag during the Mexico Championship when Mackay went down with a stomach virus.

Asked if Mackay will start working for Rahm, Phil Mickelson said he had no idea and didn't want to speculate on Mackay's next job.

"He's not told me anything and I think that he's going to have a lot of players call him and inquire about his services," Mickelson said. "That would be what I would anticipate. But I don't know."

Mickelson, who celebrated his 47th birthday on June 16, and Mackay started working together at a U.S. Open qualifier in Memphis, Tennessee in 1992. Mickelson was hoping to have their final round together at this year's U.S. Open, but he skipped the tournament to attend his oldest daughter's high school graduation in California.

Mackay went to Erin Hills in Wisconsin to scout the course in case a weather delay would have allowed Mickelson to make his tee time, but it didn't work out. Instead, their last round was in the St. Jude Classic in Memphis.

"We knew that final round in Memphis that that was our last round together or most likely," Mickelson said. "We were holding out hope that it wasn't, that we had one more week, and it was an emotional day. But we both know it's time."

Mickelson joined LPGA stars Brooke Henderson, Lydia Ko and Stacy Lewis for a skills challenge at Olympia Fields on Monday ahead of this weekend's KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Mickelson and KPMG also announced a donation by the Phil and Amy Mickelson Foundation to the company's future leaders program, which awards college scholarships to young women and brings them to Stanford University for a leadership development retreat.

Mickelson signed autographs for about a half-hour after winning the skills competition, which included a couple different chipping contests and a knockout game involving images of each player behind plates of glass.

"I was nervous because I know how good they are," he said, "and it was fun because it gave me an opportunity to be around some of the best players in the world, best athletes in the world."

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