Amy Mickelson reportedly took matters into her own hands after her husband, golfer Phil Mickelson, began “regularly” sleeping with another woman.
Phil, 56, is accused of “having at least one woman who was not his wife spend the night in his condo” at the Madison Club in La Quinta, California, in a piece published by journalist Alan Shipnuck for Skratch Golf on Friday, June 26.
According to “multiple members and employees of the Madison Club,” Amy was not on the club’s premises at the time.
In 2021, Phil abruptly left the Madison Club after nearly a decade of membership.
“He wasn’t necessarily kicked out,” a senior member of the Madison Club’s management team told Shipnuck. “It was more of a demand by Amy. We got a call from [Phil’s and Amy’s] wealth management firm: ‘We need Phil’s place sold, gone, right now. Phil will no longer be a member at the Madison Club.’”
Amy and Phil have been married since 1996 and share three children: daughters Amanda, born in 1999, and Sophia, born in 2001, and son Evan, born in 2003.
MEDINAH, IL – SEPTEMBER 29: Phil Mickelson with his wife Amy Mickelson during at Medinah Country Club on September 29, 2012 in Medinah, Illinois. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
After leaving the Madison Club, Phil began spending most of his free time at The Bridges golf club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, where he allegedly began cheating on Amy again with another woman in a property near the club.
“Phil would give his phone to a young man in the pro shop and pay him $500 to drive around the course for three or four hours,” a club member told Shipnuck. “Amy was tracking his phone; 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 club member said he found out about the allegations from “the kid from the pro shop.”
“Everyone at the club knew what was going on and eventually Amy found out, too,” the member claimed.
Prior to the alleged incidents at the Madison Club and The Bridges, a former friend of Mickelson’s told Shipnuck that “things began to change” with Phil around 2015.
“He began drinking more on the road,” the friend claimed. “Lots of red wine. He had always been devoted to Amy but that also started to change.”
In a statement to Skratch Golf via Phil’s attorneys, the golfer’s spokesperson addressed the claims made in the article.
“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 read. “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. He understands that parts of his life are public, but his family’s private matters are not.”
Phil’s lawyers called out some “false” accusations in the story — which included Phil allegedly showing a naked photo of himself to another golfer’s wife — while acknowledging “others revisit mistakes he has already acknowledged, publicly or privately.”
“Stacking the disputed claims next to the ones he has owned does not make them credible,” the statement added. “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. His story, struggles, and recovery belong to him and to the people who have shared it closely alongside him.”
