Phil Mickelson hilariously owns up to terrible Scottie Scheffler take in social media post

Phil Mickelson is known for his unthinkable abbreviated crippled and precision astir the green, but the six-time large champion changeable from the unsmooth with a instrumentality connected Scottie Scheffler and got burned for it. 

In mid-March, aft Joaquin Niemann won his 2nd LIV Golf tourney of the twelvemonth to that point, Mickelson took to societal media to praise Niemann portion taking a excavation astatine Scheffler. 

"Top 5 (player successful the world)? Try #1," Mickelson posted. 

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Phil Mickelson reacts aft his putt connected the 16th greenish during the archetypal circular of the Masters Tournament connected April 10, 2025. (Peter Casey-Imagn Images)

Scheffler was astatine the clip and presently is the No. 1 golfer successful the world, but that did not halt Mickelson. 

The 54-year-old doubled down connected his blistery take, saying that Scheffler, contempt coming disconnected 1 of the astir ascendant seasons successful PGA Tour history, would not triumph successful 2025 earlier the Ryder Cup successful precocious September. 

Scheffler had not won a tourney yet this play arsenic helium recovered from a freak manus injury, but the 28-year-old went atomic astatine the CJ Cup Bryon Nelson tournament. Scheffler won the tourney and finished 31-under par and tied the PGA Tour’s 72-hole scoring record. 

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER TIES PGA TOUR RECORD IN IMPRESSIVE WIN AT THE CJ CUP BYRON NELSON

Scottie Scheffler holds the winner's trophy of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson play tourney successful McKinney, Texas, connected Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Scheffler won the tourney by 8 strokes, and Mickelson, with a nudge from erstwhile Masters champion Trevor Immelman online, had to ain up his take.

"So I mightiness person been disconnected connected that one," Mickelson posted with a brace of crying laughing emojis. 

"Congrats to Scottie connected a large performance."

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Scottie Scheffler is greeted by his woman Meredith and their lad Bennett aft winning the CJ Cup Byron Nelson play tourney successful McKinney, Texas, connected Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

The nearly-record-breaking triumph was the 14th vocation PGA Tour triumph successful Scheffler’s career. While helium had not won yet this year, Scheffler went into the tourney this past play successful Texas with 5 apical 10 finishes, including a fourth-place decorativeness astatine The Masters. 

Scheffler’s archetypal tourney triumph of the 2025 play comes with the PGA Championship close astir the corner, arsenic the tourney begins astatine Quail Hollow Golf & Country Club connected May 15.

Mickelson is besides acceptable to partake successful the PGA Championship, a tourney helium has won doubly successful his vocation (2005, 2021). 

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