It's Not Even Friday Yet: Mickelson Loses Another Sponsor Along With Greg Norman's Favorite Cool Kids
/After KPMG and Phil Mickelson agreed to part ways, Amstel Light makers Heineken confirmed to Sportico they had dropped the embattled golfer.
A spokesman for Amstel parent Heineken told Sportico on Tuesday night: “We made the decision to go our separate ways and end Amstel Light’s partnership with Phil Mickelson. We wish him all the best.”
Mickelson’s bio remains on Callaway’s website but some noticed a scrubbing of his likeness from other web pages. The company has not commented on Mickelson as a Friday news dump possibility looms.
The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay looked at the “bleak” matter of sportwashing and Mickelson’s mistake in not understanding the consequences of saying the quiet part out loud.
The New York Post noted Mickelson’s lastest block: the influential Paige Spiranac. I don’t this is going to help him win a second PIP.
Most painful of all may be Greg Norman’s favorite influencers at PGA Memes mocking Mickelson. Yes, the same PGAMemes Norman mentioned four times in his recent Saudi Arabia press conference as the future of the game. You know how the old saying goes, when you lose the meme makers…
Meanwhile, in other news of the bizarre, Instagram star-of-The-Villages Greg Norman thinks he’s Churchill taking on the Nazi’s.
And finally, from Find The Fairway, an alternative look at the Saudi Golf League:
