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Paige Spiranac brands Phil Mickelson “fake”

Paige Spiranac brands Phil Mickelson “fake"

Are you blocked by Phil Mickelson? If so, you’re in good company.

Paige Spiranac, the most followed golf personality on social media, has described a bizarre sequence of events that saw her blocked by the six-time major champion – not once but TWICE!

Appearing on the most recent episode of The bunkered Podcast, Shot Scope ambassador Spiranac said she had been under the impression that she was on good terms with the left-hander following a couple of pleasant exchanges.

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“I met Phil years prior,” she said. “He was really nice, he came up to me, I was working with Mizzen+Main at the time and so he was like, ‘That’s really cool that we have that connection. I love what you do on social media.’ And so I was like, ‘Thanks Phil, you’re awesome’.

“A year later, I saw him at the Phoenix Open and same thing. He walked by, Bones brought me a water and it was really cool. So, I always thought there was like a fine relationship between us.”

That changed when Mickelson won the US PGA Championship in record-breaking fashion in May 2021 and Spiranac attempted to congratulate him.

“I was like, ‘Let’s go Phil’, gassing him up, saying the nicest things about him but then I was looking [on social…

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