A new report paints a messy picture of what really happened when Phil Mickelson left the Madison Club in La Quinta back in 2021. It wasn’t a straightforward ban or a quiet resignation. According to journalist Alan Shipnuck, writing for Skratch Golf, Mickelson’s wife Amy was the one who made the call to get him out.
“He wasn’t necessarily kicked out,” a senior member of the club’s management team told Shipnuck. “It was more of a demand by Amy. We got a call from their wealth management firm: ‘We need Phil’s place sold, gone, right now. Phil will no longer be a member at the Madison Club.’”
The demand came amid allegations that Mickelson cheated on his wife. Shipnuck reported the pro golfer was “having at least one woman who was not his wife spend the night in his condo” at the club. The reported pattern didn’t stop there.
Tracking by Phone, Sneaking Around a Second Club
Shipnuck’s reporting also details an alleged scheme at The Bridges golf club in Rancho Santa Fe. A club member described a setup where Mickelson would hand his phone to a young pro shop employee, pay him $500, and have the employee drive around the course for hours. “Amy was tracking his phone,” the member said. “That way, she would think he was out on the golf course. That gave Phil the time to sneak over to this guy’s house and have his secret rendezvous.”
The Mickelsons married in 1996 and have three kids together: Amanda, Sophia, and Evan.
Sexual Misconduct Allegations Also Surface
This isn’t the only set of claims circling the six-time major winner. An employee at a different golf club previously accused Mickelson of “nonconsensual and inappropriate physical contact.” Ashley Perez, who was married to pro golfer Pat Perez, added fuel to that fire on Instagram. She said Mickelson allegedly “took out his phone and showed her a full-body picture of himself naked with an erection while flexing one bicep,” according to Shipnuck’s report.
Perez wrote on her Instagram Story: “I will rise up and stand next to the millions of women who have been silenced to protect the evil and darkness that lurks amongst us. My heart goes out to the countless other victims.”
Mickelson’s spokesperson, speaking through his attorney, pushed back on both rounds of claims. “Throughout their 35-year relationship, his wife, Amy Mickelson, has supported Mr. Mickelson and their family with extraordinary grace, unwavering love, and the belief that people are measured not only by their failures, but by what they do to make them right,” the statement said. “Mr. Mickelson’s priority is to become the husband, father, and man his family deserves. Right now, that means giving his full attention to a private family health matter.”
On the sexual misconduct allegations, the spokesperson added: “Stacking the disputed claims next to the ones he has owned does not make them credible. It instead contributes to a false and misleading narrative. No person, no article, and no book can present an accurate, complete, or personal story of the life Mr. Mickelson and his family have lived.”
Neither Phil nor Amy Mickelson has personally commented on Shipnuck’s reporting.
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