Bones: “Phil called (my) doctor the day before the surgery and he goes, hey, man, I need your best tomorrow"

PGATour.com's Helen Ross profiles Jim "Bones" Mackay, bagman for Phil Mickelson who, like his boss, is coming off of off-season surgery.

Ross writes:

Four hours later, Mackay had a new pair of titanium knees and a matching set of 6-inch scars over each kneecap. He was walking the next day, aided by a walker for several weeks and then switching to a cane.

“Once you stop limping, they want you to kind of go it alone,” Mackay said. “They found out during the surgery that not only were my legs beaten up from what I do for a living, but genetically they were really bad to begin with.

“So that made us doubly glad that we did it because it was kind of an accident waiting to happen.”