Phil Mickelson sparks fresh political controversy | Golf News

Golf icon Phil Mickelson has once again made waves with his political commentary, this time at LIV Golf Korea. Known for his candid online presence, Mickelson’s newest social media exercise continues his sample of partaking in American political discourse, despite the curious timing.

In the early hours of Friday morning at 1:30 am and then again at 6 am native time in South Korea, Mickelson turned to X (previously recognized as Twitter) to specific his ideas. The LIV Golf event he was set to take part in was scheduled to start at 11 am that identical day at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club.

His latest posts have been sparked by Democratic criticism of the Trump administration’s method to deporting unlawful immigrants.

Mickelson retweeted a video of CNN political commentator Scott Jennings lambasting the Democrats’ stance on Donald Trump’s immigration insurance policies.

Jennings acknowledged: “Democrats allowed 20 million illegal immigrants to walk into the country with NO process. Now, they want President Trump to give these people who broke the law YEARS of ‘due process’ before he can send them back home. Americans are SICK of this.”

Unapologetic, Mickelson replied: “Exactly. Anyone who disagrees should open their homes to them especially the judges who are overstepping their jurisdiction. Yah, I didn’t think so.”

Despite the potential for controversy, Mickelson stands firm, sharing one other video to help his views.

Currently ranked 14th in LIV Golf’s particular person standings and with his group, HyFLyers, sitting eighth, Mickelson stays optimistic despite lacking the cut at the latest Masters.

Amid ongoing golf world tensions, Mickelson continues to firmly back Saudi-backed LIV Golf as it navigates potential merger discussions with the PGA Tour.

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Mickelson, one of the pioneering golfers to go away the PGA Tour, still stands by his claims about the tours’ instructions, saying, “LIV Golf (is) trending upwards” as the “PGA Tour (is) trending downwards.

“Maybe I should not have mentioned stuff like that, I do not know. If I’m just trying at LIV Golf and where we’re at this time to where we have been six, seven months in the past and people are saying this is lifeless in the water, and we’re previous that. Here we’re at this time, a pressure in the sport that’s not going away.”

However, his cut up from the PGA Tour has taken a toll, with misplaced Official Golf World Ranking factors considerably harming his rating and placing his participation in future majors at risk.