Phil Mickelson stories are the best tales.
There was that time he and Tiger Woods played ping pong during The Presidents Cup. There was the way he got under Woods’ and Tony Romo’s skin before the Pebble Beach pro-am. How about how he hustled guests out of a lot of money while betting on a boxing match?
The latest comes courtesy of country singer Jake Owen, who told the Fore Play podcast that he confronted Lefty at Jordan Spieth’s wedding about last year’s The Match against Woods, which resulted in golf that wasn’t all that great.
Here’s the story from Owen (and a WARNING: There is sooooo much NSFW language in here):
“I’d had a few cocktails. I saw him across the room and I was like, ‘I gotta go tell this guy what I think.’
So I walked over to him and I was like ‘Hey, Phil, you owe me (expletive) $29.99!’ I was like, ‘for wasting four hours of my life with the (expletive) golf I’ve ever seen. You guys hyped this whole thing up about this big match, you guys couldn’t even make three birdies between the two of you, I want my $29.99 back and apologize to me for some (expletive) golf.’
“And he pulls out a wad … and he grabs $100, like a hundred-dollar bill and he’s like, ‘Yea, I won 90,000 of these yesterday.’ He goes, ‘Take a 100 and go (expletive) yourself.'”
But was it true? Mickelson confirmed it on Twitter, which makes this story five times better:
