Tiger Woods may not be playing golf on the PGA Tour right now, but that doesn’t mean his willingness and ability to trash-talk is gone.
Phil Mickelson has been put through the wringer over the last several weeks, but he just received another kick while he is down. On December 29th of last year, Mickelson claimed he was the winner of the PIP, a PGA Tour incentive to reward the top 10 players who have the greatest impact on the PGA Tour.
On Wednesday, the official results were released and to the surprise of no one, it was in fact Mr. Woods who took home the $8 million top prize.
And the Big Cat just couldn’t help himself — he had to put his old rival in yet another body bag.
🤷♂️ whoops 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/SkMTGerVOB
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) March 2, 2022
To be fair, it’s entirely possible Mickelson was leading the PIP when he made his announcement, as the Tour still had to calculate impact from the weeks ending the year, using a complicated formula. That period included the PNC Championship, in which Woods and his son, Charlie, stole the show with their presence on the leaderboard before being clipped by John Daly and his son, John Daly II. The amount of eyeballs on Team Woods easily could have tipped the PIP in Woods’ favor.
But seeing as how we haven’t seen Woods and Mickelson go head to head on the course in quite a while and may not anytime soon, we’ll take any competition between the two we can get.
