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The fall from grace of Phil Mickelson is
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so dramatic. It is so wild. It is It is
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almost overnight going from hero to
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It is extraordinary. It is truly
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extraordinary, especially in a sport
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that rightfully or wrongfully, we kind
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of associate with gentlemanly behavior.
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Now, we know that Tiger Woods certainly
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wasn't the biggest gentleman in the
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world, but I somehow come around to
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garnering public sympathy through all of
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his foibles, all of his flaws, all of
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his problems. Phil Mickelson will never
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get there. Will never, because what we
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are seeing is not personal flaws. What
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we are seeing is just a bad guy. A
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deplorable human being.
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It is stacked one on top of one another,
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these stories, these anecdotes, this
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this kind of seedy underbelly of his
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life, of his persona. And think about
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when Phil Mickelson is winning the last
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of his majors, the type of hero he was
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as the gallery walked alongside him.
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Think about what his public perception
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was. This aging legend of the game who
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had always seemingly fallen short. Oh,
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woe is Phil because Tiger was in his
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way. Had finally at the end of his
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career kind of overcome some of that as
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Tiger had waned, and here he was as the
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everyman golfer people clung to.
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And then there was this series of of
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really PR disasters, whether it was
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gambling debts, leaving for the LIV
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treating other people poorly, and now
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most recently two really heinous,
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deplorable situations involving women.
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One of which an accusation of what a
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picture that he showed the wife of a a
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fellow golfer on tour, is just
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disgusting if true, but also most
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recently you have this incident where he
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is just blacklisted from a club for lewd
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a woman that worked there.
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I mean, you are a guy with a green
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jacket. You are a golfing Hall of Famer.
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At the end of your career
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clubs don't want to ban you for life.
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That is not what they're looking to do.
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They're not looking to take a guy who is
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a top 12 golfer of all time, maybe
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higher. They're not hoping that they can
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ban you from their club. They don't want
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to do that. You have to really cross
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some lines. And for them to do it
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immediately, no investigation, no
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questions asked, you are gone here.
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Think about how low that behavior has to
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It is so stark and so dramatic and so
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that Phil could go from one of the most,
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if not the most popular golfer, aside
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from Tiger, of his generation
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to this, where he's seen as a pathetic,
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It's wild. It truly is wild. And maybe
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we never knew the true Phil. Maybe Phil
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was dolled up by agents and PR people
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and the tour and whatever. But man, as
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layers have been peeled back on Phil
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Mickelson, we have found out
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that actually we don't like this guy.
