MEXICO CITY (AP) – Phil Mickelson had a familiar face on the bag Friday in Mexico Championship.
He called him “Bro,” not “Bones.”
Mickelson’s younger brother was pressed into duty at Chapultepec Golf Club when Jim “Bones” Mackay fell ill and couldn’t go more than three holes. Mackay was the latest player or caddie suffering from a stomach virus this week, and he gingerly stepped into a cart on the 13th hole.
That’s when Tim Mickelson got the call to step in. He was at this World Golf Championship as the agent for Spanish rookie Jon Rahm, whom he coached at Arizona State.
“I was having breakfast and Phil called and said, ‘Just be around if something happens,'” he said. “Jon had nothing pressing going on so I said, ‘Yeah, no problem.’ So I started following and on 13 he called it a day.”