In a story posted on Skratch on Friday, Alan Shipnuck details two instances of lurid, unwanted behavior exhibited by Phil Mickelson which Shipnuck reports came after inteviews with 19 people.
Among the incidents involved Mickelson propositioning the wife of fellow pro Pat Perez minutes after Perez got up to use the restroom. Another incident occurred in a restaurant where Mickelson made graphic depictions in front of a large table of dinner guests.
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Shipnuck’s story comes out about two weeks after Golf Digest break news of Mickelson being kicked out of the exclusive private club The Farms in the San Diego area. Shipnuck reveals:
In fact, Mickelson’s unceremonious ending at The Farms seems to be part of a larger pattern. In recent years, he has had abrupt departures from two other high-end golf clubs, the Madison Club and The Bridges in Rancho Santa Fe. Sources at both clubs say his personal conduct was a primary factor.
Mickelson hasn’t played competitively since doing so on the LIV circuit in March. He has missed all three majors so far in 2026, including the PGA Championship, an event he won in 2021. Mickelson did not attend the champions dinner ahead of the PGA at Aronimink and fellow former PGA winner Mark Brooks indicated to Shipnuck that was probably for the best. From the report:
How do Mickelson’s contemporaries really feel about him? “If he had walked into that room, the temperature would have dropped about 10 degrees,” says Brooks. “It would have been a chilly reception.”
Mickelson’s fall from grace has been in the works for some time, as Shipnuck details.
“It’s a very sad story,” says Mickelson’s former golf buddy. “He should have been Arnold Palmer. Phil had the same charisma, the same star power. People loved him everywhere he went. My take is that he came to believe his own bullshit. He thought he was bulletproof, because his whole life he had always skated on everything. But, in the end, he had too many demons. He got consumed by his own darkness.”
For the full story from Shipnuck, click here.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Report details two incidents in which Phil Mickelson made unwanted, public sexual advances