Phil Alfred Mickelson, nicknamed Lefty, is an American professional golfer. He has won 45 events on the PGA Tour, including six major championships: three Masters titles, two PGA Championships, and one Open Championship.
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Mickelson’s position in the pantheon of greats was unharmed. Now? In a world not at all renowned for caustic criticism, Rory McIlroy has branded Mickelson “naive, egotistical, selfish, ignorant”. Mickelson has lost sponsorship.
The prospects of him captaining the US Ryder Cup team or forging a future career in the television booth are, at best, remote. For an individual who placed such stock in a careful public-relations policy, his has been a remarkable implosion. Whisper it, but Brand Phil was never particularly convincing.
Nickname:
Lefty
Consider this, via Golf Today: “Rory Sabbatini is the most hated man in golf. So says the result of a survey by Sports Illustrated in which 25 percent of pros polled named the 32-year-old South African as their least favorite playing partner.”
The six-time major winner, who has served as tournament host since 2020, will not return to that role next year and his foundation will no longer serve as its charitable arm, the paper reported, citing the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mickelson could not be reached for comment.
Controversy:
There has been speculation the PGA Tour may suspend Mickelson. Such a move would be futile. Damage already done to this individual and the SGL is such that sanction would serve no purpose. Mickelson, once the darling of the galleries, will suffer when subjected to ridicule on his return to the fairways.
And he is almost guaranteed to struggle; last year’s US PGA Championship win sits as the clear exception to a dismal run of results.
Mickelson may re-emerge from cold storage at the Masters – spectators would be used to prop up a Georgia overpass should they abuse a past champion – but is a near certainty to miss the PGA Tour’s marquee event, the Players Championship, in mid-March.
