Phil Mickelson dropped a video on X to share the unbelievable Augusta National story.
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Following repeated controversies over the previous two years, Phil Mickelson has ended up on the unhealthy facet of many individuals and organizations in the world of golf. Now we’d have to add Augusta National Golf Club to the listing.
The motive? A video surfaced on social media Thursday night time making critical allegations towards the three-time Masters champion involving repeated theft on the storied membership in Georgia.
And there’s likelihood the allegations are true, as a result of the person who made the claims is none aside from Phil Mickelson himself.
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Late Thursday night time, Mickelson dropped a video of himself on X (previously referred to as Twitter) sitting in golf cart and spilling the small print on his crime.
Mickelson begins by explaining that again in 2004 he and Dave Pelz began engaged on a towel drill in which they might lay towels down on a spread from particular distances up to 175 yards and hit to them.
The drill appeared to flip Phil’s recreation round, main to a number of wins together with his first main title on the 2004 Masters, the place he practiced the drill day by day.
But when Mickelson confirmed up in 2005, as he claims in the video, a brand new signal had appeared on Augusta’s East driving vary, his most well-liked spot to apply the drill, that learn: “EAST PRACTICE TEE FOR SHORT GAME PRACTICE ONLY.”
This introduced an issue for Phil, who would not give you the chance to carry out the drill he trusted for his title protection. That is, till he got here up with an modern answer: steal the signal.
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“After the Champions Dinner, I let all the champions leave first, and I go down Magnolia Lane and I park the car, and I kind of crawl under the magnolias, and I take that sign and I wiggle and I wiggle and I lift and I yank it out and I throw it in the back of my SUV and off I go,” Phil reveals in the video. “So I show up the next morning and there’s no sign there, I start hitting my shots, I do my towel drill and I do it all week long.”
But when Mickelson returned in 2006 for an additional Masters begin, the signal had reappeared. Not to be dissuaded, Phil reenacted his theft from the earlier yr, and as soon as once more stole the offending vary signal. This time, although, the plan didn’t work.
“I show up the next day and I’m going to go do my towel drill and there’s another sign there,” Phil defined. “It never dawned on me there are cameras everywhere and there’s some video of me crawling under these magnolias with the guys saying, ‘Look at this idiot, what’s he doing?’”
The story sounds far-fetched, particularly contemplating Augusta National’s popularity for being very strict about guidelines and laws throughout Masters week, for each followers and gamers.
But Mickelson offered some proof. At the very finish of the video, Phil pulls out the very signal he stole from Augusta and shows it for the digicam together with one line: “It’s a true story.”
Check it out for your self beneath.
Fortunately for Phil, he wasn’t banned from the membership (not less than not but), and being denied his most well-liked drill didn’t appear to have an effect on him in 2006 both, as he went on to seize his second Masters title and third profession main that week.
