Phil Mickelson final October in the course of the LIV Golf Team Championship.
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He shilled for LIV Golf.
He saluted Rory McIlroy and plugged the Golf Channel, too.
And Phil Mickelson did so by clicking ‘tweet.’
‘I’m no style man’: Phil Mickelson takes swipe … at Tour professional’s pants
Nick Piastowski
This, in fact, was once a daily factor, the place the six-time main champ would opine over no more than 280 Twitter characters, then 2022 occurred — LIV Golf was shaped, they provided assured cash to PGA Tour gamers, the Tour create modifications in response, the edges took one another courtroom, and Mickelson grew to become maybe the largest face of the Saudi-backed sequence — and Lefty’s blue hen app went into hibernation. But no extra. He’s logged back on. Two weeks in the past, he logged on after seeing the Caddie Network’s account submit an image of a spot within the timber on Augusta National’s thirteenth — and he wrote that, yes, he would hit from there, a lot like he did in 2010. Every week later, he complimented Luke Donald for a play that noticed this 12 months’s European Ryder Cup captain chip and not using a pin. Mickelson was on a roll.
On Tuesday, the Caddie Network account shared a photo of a younger Tiger Woods holding a trophy to the precise of what seems to be a match official, with this caption: “Torrey Pines has this picture hanging in their coastal San Diego clubhouse. Any idea who it is?” — to which Mickelson replied: “No idea the guy on the right. The guy on the left is “Brownie” I imagine John Brown however solely ever known as him Brownie. He was the godfather of San Diego junior golf and one of many kindest souls who has ever lived.” Later that very same day, Mickelson replied to a tweet from the Fore Play golf account in regards to the tough at Torrey Pines.
Then got here the weekend, and the flame was lit and the takes had been back.
On Saturday, in the course of the closing spherical of the Farmers Insurance Open, professional Sam Ryder was sporting purple-ish joggers, and Mickelson had ideas — “The Tour doesn’t allow shorts but does allow this weeks leader to wear joggers with ankle socks? Showing 4 inches of ankle? I’m no fashion guy, never will be, but there are some things I won’t ever understand.” — and as of Sunday evening, the tweet had simply over 2,300 feedback. Lefty responded to 2. To professional and jogger wearer Erik van Rooyen, who had replied with a photo of Mickelson taking part in in a button gown shirt, Mickelson wrote: “As I said, by no means been a style man. “
The second response got here after this comment: “How about you just worry about playing those 3 day captain’s choice tournaments and leave the real golf to the PGA.” The reply?
“I agree,” Mickelson wrote. “I’ve already received 45 of these PGA thingies. They had been fairly straightforward. Captains alternative tournaments (LIV EVENTS) are a lot more durable with such stronger fields. I haven’t even received one but “
There was one different. Two truly. McIlroy, as a lot the face of the PGA Tour as anybody, was taking part in his third spherical of the Dubai Desert Classic third spherical, and Mickelson thought it is best to know.
“What a great -7 3rd round by @McIlroyRory in DUBAI to open up a 3 shot lead,” he wrote. “See if he can finish it off. Watch live final round action from the Middle East on the golf channel.”
And that drew this response:
“Last time I checked Phil your career has been loaded with Sunday chokes, especially in majors #wingedfoot”
And that drew this Mickelson response, one minute later:
“I have won 6 though.”
