5-at-10: All about the apology for Mickelson and Howard, plus a Rushmore of famous car crashes

FILE - Phil Mickelson walks off the 14th green after missing a birdie putt during the third round at the PGA Championship golf tournament on the Ocean Course, Saturday, May 22, 2021, in Kiawah Island, S.C. Whether his true intentions were chasing Saudi Arabian money or gaining more control over how he thinks the PGA Tour should be run, Mickelson has been exposed for manipulating people to get what he wants. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) FILE - Phil Mickelson walks off the 14th green after missing a birdie putt during the third round at the PGA Championship golf tournament on the Ocean Course, Saturday, May 22, 2021, in Kiawah Island, S.C. Whether his true intentions were chasing Saudi Arabian money or gaining more control over how he thinks the PGA Tour should be run, Mickelson has been exposed for manipulating people to get what he wants. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

By Jay Greeson February 23, 2022 5 min read

Lefty is not right

So we have conversed about Phil Mickelson risking one of the greatest public images in golf history for this Saudi thingy.

It completely unraveled when famed golf author Alan Shipnuck, who is writing a Mickelson biography, released some very eye-popping quotes from Mickelson last week.

The blowback has been constant, merciless and, to be honest, fair.

Mickelson responded to it on social media on Tuesday. Gang, can we not, you know, actually meet with the media when you mess up?

But, on the same day long-time sponsor KPMG dropped Lefty after 14 years, Mickelson – who has forever inside the ropes held the nickname FIGJAM (bleep-I-am-good-just-ask-me) – could not leave the apology alone. He added that his hammer quotes about his greedy, egotistical and selfish motives with the new Tour were off the record.