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Phil Mickelson’s US Open return going awfully and Twitter is relentlessly trolling him

By Cody Williams

BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS - JUNE 16: Phil Mickelson of the United States waves on the ninth green during round one of the 122nd U.S. Open Championship at The Country Club on June 16, 2022 in Brookline, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS - JUNE 16: Phil Mickelson of the United States waves on the ninth green during round one of the 122nd U.S. Open Championship at The Country Club on June 16, 2022 in Brookline, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) /
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Phil Mickelson isn’t having the birthday he hoped for at the US Open in the first round and Twitter doesn’t care at all that he turns 52 on Thursday.

At The Country Club this week for the US Open, Phil Mickelson was going to demand a ton of attention no matter what happened. With his decision to join LIV Golf, his controversial comments, revelations about his personal life, and so on, he was going to be the focus of many people.

But in all that, the one thing that no one seemed to talk about was the fact that the 52-year-old, whose birthday was on Thursday during his first round, has played only one competitive golf tournament in many months — last week’s LIV Golf inaugural event in London — and didn’t look good in that one start either.

That bad form wasn’t done any favors by a course at Brookline that was playing extremely difficult but Mickelson looked terrible. He was sitting a 6-over through the first 10 holes before making his first birdie. Naturally, he double-bogeyed the next to drop to 7-over.

And as you might imagine, Twitter users didn’t hesitate to fire off their jokes and trolls as Mickelson’s expense amid his struggles.

US Open: Phil Mickelson being trolled mercilessly for awful first round

It was a complete and uncontained troll-fest with Phil Mickelson as the focus on social media.

https://twitter.com/tobytarrant/status/1537519263166111750

https://twitter.com/SkySportsGolf/status/1537517214773006338

With his comments about the PGA Tour and the early status of LIV Golf, the jokes basically wrote themselves — especially when you also throw in Mickelson’s longstanding struggles when it comes to the US Open.

It feels safe to say that Mickelson’s stateside return to the game of golf is going to be a two-day venture. And as several Twitter users wondered, you do have to think that maybe LIV Golf thought they were getting something different than this version of Phil Mickelson as a golfer.

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