Phil Mickelson asks Josh Allen to repeat crude | Golf News

Phil Mickelson requested NFL quarterback Josh Allen to repeat a crude joke as the pair loved a spherical of golf earlier this yr. Mickelson had teamed up with golf YouTuber Grant Horvat to take on Buffalo Bills celebrity Allen and LIV Golf star Jon Rahm at La Jolla Country Club earlier this yr.

Mickelson, a six-time major winner who jumped ship from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf a few years in the past, but still has fond relationships on his former Tour, wishing Tiger Woods properly in his recovery from his latest back surgical procedure, was subject to a collection of pranks and jokes, as Allen and Rahm seemed to knock him off his recreation.

One prank from Allen on Mickelson included altering the space measurement on his vary finder. Following one of Mickelson’s photographs that landed in a bush before making it out, Allen seized the chance to joke at the 55-year-old’s expense. “It came out of the bush,” host Horvat said.

“I think we all came out of a bush at some point,” Allen quipped. “Sorry. I’m just not used to being in the rough,” Mickelson responded. “I’m sorry, what did you say? I missed that. Ball came [out of] what?”

While Mickelson hasn’t loved particular person success in LIV Golf despite being one of the league’s highest-profile acquisitions since its inception, he continues to be a main voice in the game. Mickelson has also continued to amplify his voice in the political realm, utilizing his X social media platform to problem political points, principally with Democrats in his sights.

Mickelson challenged California Governor Gavin Newsom to a debate following the Democrat’s criticism of the administration’s vitality insurance policies.

The golfer also made his emotions clear on Charlie Kirk’s assassination last month, and commented on the Republican activist’s upcoming posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“His presence and message will live forever but I still wish he was here. This award is well deserved,” Mickelson wrote over the weekend. Mickelson also hit out at some of the vulgar responses to Kirk’s death.

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“The assassination of Charlie Kirk is bringing out some of the best in humanity and it’s also exposing some of the worst,” he wrote on X in response to a assertion from the president-elect of the Oxford Union last month, whom debated Kirk.

“The unification, love, support, and outcry on his behalf throughout the world is heartwarming. The number of people supporting Tyler Robinson’s appalling behavior has opened my eyes to a side of extremism with a moral superiority complex that has also shaken my belief in people in general. I hope they are held accountable for their disgusting rhetoric.”