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Mickelson will team with Tampa Bay Buccaneers
quarterback Tom Brady against Woods and Peyton Manning in an
event that will raise at least $10 million for coronavirus
relief efforts. The Match will take place at Woods' home course
of Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla.
"I can't wait to go to Tiger's place and take him down,"
Mickelson said in a phone call with Golfweek. "Tiger thinks he
has a huge advantage playing there because he was insistent that
this event is played on his home course. Despite everyone else
wanting to play it elsewhere. That's fine. We'll take it to him
and Peyton.
"There will be no excuses. It's his home course but Tom and I
are going to go down there and put it to them, and we'll make it
that every time Tiger shows up at his home course, he'll have a
bad memory."
Those are strong words considering that Mickelson has never
played the course, however Lefty made it right in Match I two
years ago when he won the $9 million winner-take-all battle in
Las Vegas.
Mickelson, in fact, made sure Woods could see the trophy in the
background during some early good-natured trash talk. Woods
responded by draping his green jacket won at The Masters over
him.
Perhaps Mickelson's confidence for the upcoming event stems from
his teaming with his decorated partner, who knows a thing or two
about winning. Brady has won six Super Bowl titles with the New
England Patriots.
"I've played with Tom a few times. I've played with him at
Augusta National and Friar's Head and I've seen him hit some
remarkable shots and I've seen him hit some shots that you
wouldn't be so surprised he hit," Mickelson said. "But his
strength is he is a very good putter and he hits the ball a long
ways and he's good with his short irons. If I can get the ball
in play I think we'll have a chance on the back-nine modified
alternate-shot platform."
Funds from the event will go to organizations that are providing
supplies to health workers, collecting plasma for COVID-19
treatment, helping small businesses survive during the pandemic
and feeding those in need.
The PGA Tour is on hiatus until June 11, when the Charles Schwab
Challenge at Colonial is scheduled to begin in Texas.
--Field Level Media
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