Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson’s representatives have described allegations of inappropriate behaviour levelled at him as an “anonymously sourced drive-by shooting”.<\/p>\n
In June, Golf Digest claimed that Mickelson’s membership at The Farms Golf Club in San Diego had been removed after a female employee accused him of inappropriate contact.<\/p>\n
Sky Sports News has contacted the golf club for comment.<\/p>\n
A follow-up investigation by golf publication Skratch featured further allegations about Mickelson’s conduct made by Ashley Perez, the ex-wife of fellow professional Pat Perez.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the New York Post, the golfer’s representatives said that report omitted key details and claimed it was a misunderstanding for which Mickelson had apologised.<\/p>\n
“Mr Mickelson has never been expelled from a golf club. His membership has never been revoked by a golf club. Those decisions were his alone,” read the statement.<\/p>\n
“Mr Mickelson’s willingness to apologise for his conduct should not be misconstrued as an admission of every allegation made against him.”<\/p>\n
The statement went on to say the Skratch report was “a compelling, click-bait narrative over an accurate one” and an “anonymously sourced drive-by shooting”.<\/p>\n
Skratch’s editor-in-chief Ben Boskovich told the New York Post the publication “stands by its reporting”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson’s representatives have described allegations of inappropriate behaviour levelled at him as an “anonymously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-774825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}