Why the number 100 keeps coming up for Phil Mickelson this week in Augusta
On Friday, Phil Mickelson will play his 100th career round at Augusta National Golf Club. It’s kind of his number of the week.
“I didn’t even know that (100 round statistic) until you brought it up,” Mickelson said.
Everyone at the Masters this week seems to know the other story about 100 surrounding Mickelson. That one came out last week when country music singer Jake Owens recounted on a podcast with Barstool Sports a story from Jordan Spieth’s wedding in which Owens was heckling Mickelson for the poor quality of play in Mickelson’s head-to-head televised match with Tiger Woods.
“I was like, ‘Hey Phil, you owe me (expletive) $29.99 … for wasting four hours of my life with the (expletive) golf I’ve ever seen!,” Owens said. “I want my $29.99 and apologize to me for some (expletive) golf!’” Owen said. “He pulls out a wad … and grabs a $100 and he’s like, ‘Yeah, I won 90,000 of these yesterday. Take $100 and go (expletive) yourself.’ Right in my face.”
Mickelson confirmed all the essential facts of the exchange without the colorful language here.
“It happened exactly like he said. Jake nailed it, verbatim,” Mickelson said. “Rickie Fowler and I were talking, he was right there, Jake had a bunch of buddies behind him and thought he would show off a little bit and I kind of shot him down, so, yeah. I can’t tell it any better than he can. You know, it’s much better coming from him. I didn’t know he was going to talk about it publicly, but yeah, I mean, it’s all true.”
On Wednesday, Mickelson warmed up on the practice range with a $100 bill hanging from his pants pocket.
Mickelson, 49, is a 45-to-1 long shot to win his fourth green jacket.
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8:30 a.m. -- Andrew Landry, Adam Long, Corey Conners
8:41 a.m. -- Ian Woosnam, Keith Mitchell, Kevin Tway
8:52 a.m. -- Mike Weir, Shane Lowry, Kevin O’Connell*
9:03 a.m. -- Angel Cabrera, Aaron Wise, Justin Harding
9:14 a.m. -- Danny Willett, Brandt Snedeker, Takumi Kanaya*
9:25 a.m. -- Fred Couples, Si Woo Kim, J.B. Holmes
9:36 a.m. -- Branden Grace, Emiliano Grillo, Lucas Bjerregaard
9:47 a.m. -- Charl Schwartzel, Charles Howell III, Eddie Pepperell
9:58 a.m. -- Sergio Garcia, Tony Finau, Henrik Stenson
10:09 a.m. -- Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyamu, Kyle Stanley
10:31 a.m. -- Patrick Reed, Webb Simpson, Viktor Hovland*
10:42 a.m. -- Charley Hoffman, Louis Oosthuizen, Marc Leishman
10:53 a.m. -- Tommy Fleetwood, Xander Schauffele, Gary Woodland
11:04 a.m. -- Tiger Woods, Haoton Li, Jon Rahm
11:15 a.m. -- Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, Cameron Smith
11:26 a.m. -- Sandy Lyle, Michael Kim, Patton Kizzire
11:37 a.m. -- Trevor Immelman, Martin Kaymer, Devon Bling*
11:48 a.m. -- Larry Mize, Jimmy Walker, Stewart Cink
11:59 a.m. -- Jose Maria Olazabal, Kevin Na, Thorbjorn Olesen
12:10 p.m. -- Bernhard Langer, Matt Wallace, Alvaro Ortiz*
12:32 p.m. -- Alex Noren, Keegan Bradley, Matthew Fitzpatrick
12:43 p.m. -- Vijay Singh, Billy Horschel, Jovan Rebula*
12:54 p.m. -- Kevin Kisner, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Shugo Imahira
1:05 p.m. -- Zach Johnson, Ian Poulter, Matt Kuchar
1:16 p.m. -- Francesco Molinari, Rafael Cabrera Bello, Tyrrell Hatton
1:27 p.m. -- Bubba Watson, Patrick Cantlay, Satoshis Kodaira
1:38 p.m. -- Dustin Johnson, Bryan DeChambeau, Jason Day
1:49 p.m. -- Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas
2:00 p.m. -- Jordan Spieth, Paul Casey, Brooks Koepka
*amateur
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This story was originally published April 10, 2019 at 4:26 PM.
