Brandel Chamblee wants Phil Mickelson booted from Hall of Fame: ‘Irreparable damage to the game’

Phil Mickelson inflicting “irreparable harm to the sport” ought to earn him a one-way ticket out of golf’s Corridor of Fame, in line with one of many sport’s most outspoken analysts.

In a new interview with Golf.com, former pro-turned-commentator Brandel Chamblee ripped the six-time main champion, who defected to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf final summer time for a reported $200 million — a 12 months earlier than the breakaway circuit announced a stunning merger with the PGA Tour this previous June.

“I don’t assume he has any enterprise being within the Corridor of Fame. He’s induced irreparable harm to the sport. And if the Tour’s philanthropic side dies, the post-mortem ought to learn LIV. It ought to learn Phil,” the 61-year-old Chamblee stated.

Mickelson, who was inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame in 2012, was one of many largest PGA Tour stars to leap to LIV and has basically change into the face of the insurgent circuit.

“I understand it was a tricky dilemma that the Tour was in, however they wouldn’t have been within the dilemma if if it wasn’t for Phil,” Chamblee urged to Golf.com.

“Phil was the one one that would actually make a distinction. He was the one one. And he was not motivated by altruistic ideas. He was moved and motivated by greed and that tilted the sport in that path. And so once I take into consideration the dilemma that the Tour was in, it wouldn’t have occurred if it hadn’t been for Phil.”

Within the wake of the proposed merger between the rival entities, the 53-year-old Mickelson offered a three-word reaction to the news, tweeting, “Superior day at present.”

He at present serves because the captain of LIV’s HyFlyers GC squad, which consists of Cameron Tringale, James Piot and Brendan Steele.

Mickelson positioned tenth at LIV’s newest occasion in Bedminster, New Jersey, following a controversial week, wherein gambler Billy Walters alleged in his upcoming e book the famed golfer positioned greater than $1 billion wagers during the last 30 years and wished Walters to put a $400,000 wager on the 2012 Ryder Cup.

Mickelson vehemently denied the allegations, stating partly, “I by no means wager on the Ryder Cup. Whereas it’s well-known that I all the time take pleasure in a pleasant wager on the course, I’d by no means undermine the integrity of the sport.”