Video Evidence Refutes Sexual Misconduct Claim At Socal Golf Club, Says Phil Mickelson's Lawyer

Golf fable Phil Mickelson is refuting an accusation that he inappropriately touched a female worker astatine a prestigious play nine successful Southern California earlier this year.

According to Golf Digest, Mickelson allegedly approached nan worker astatine Farms Golf Club successful Rancho Santa Fe and made “nonconsensual and inappropriate beingness contact” pinch her. After she rejected him, she reported nan alleged intersexual misconduct to her supervisors.

Mickelson has hired Tom Clare, a apical defamation attorney, who said video grounds contradicted nan allegations.

“There is simply a awesome woody of misinformation circulating and, while Phil’s afloat attraction is devoted to a backstage family wellness matter, he has retained defamation counsel and is wished to clasp accountable immoderate publication aliases individual trafficking successful speculation aliases mendacious rumors,” lawyer Tom Clare said successful a connection to Golf Digest.

Clare did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for comment.

The allegation resulted successful nan contiguous removal of Mickelson from nan play grounds and revocation of his longtime rank astatine nan club.

Farms Golf Club said successful a connection to nan play mag that it conducted a thorough investigation into nan incident earlier confronting Mickelson and stood by its determination to extremity his membership.

Michelson, 55, withdrew from master play earlier this year owed to family wellness reasons, past playing astatine nan LIV Golf South Africa successful March. In 2022 he near nan PGA Tour for LIV Golf, which will suffer nan financial backing of nan Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund this fall.

Mickelson, a joined begetter of three, has won six awesome tournaments connected nan PGA Tour — 3 Masters, 2 PGA championships and 1 Open Championship. His estimated profession net exceed $1 billion, including $97 cardinal successful PGA Tour prize money, a reported $200 cardinal signing prize to subordinate LIV Golf and an estimated $800 cardinal from off-course endorsements and business ventures.

The accusation of intersexual misconduct is nan latest successful a drawstring of antagonistic headlines associated pinch Mickelson, respective of which pertain to his gambling.

The Detroit News obtained national tribunal records that claimed a mob-connected bookie handled bets for Mickelson and was accused of cheating nan golfer retired of $500,000 successful 2007.

Mickelson was accused by nan U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission successful 2016 of getting an insider trading extremity and buying $931,000 of banal from sports gambler Billy Walters. Mickelson was not charged and agreed to salary backmost nan amount.

Federal auditors investigating Mickelson’s domiciled successful nan strategy recovered that his gambling losses totaled much than $40 cardinal from 2010 to 2014, according to an unauthorized curriculum vitae of Mickelson.