Phil Mickelson had a brand new search for Wednesday’s apply spherical at Royal Troon Golf Membership forward of this week’s British Open.
The 2013 Open Championship winner sported joggers, although it wasn’t precisely his resolution.
Mickelson, 54, misplaced a wager to widespread YouTube golfer Grant Horvat, who boasts greater than 700,000 subscribers to his channel, in a match revealed to each of their channels on the favored video platform this week.
The stipulation of the match was that if Horvat received, then Mickelson would have needed to put on joggers at this week’s British Open.
But when the six-time main champion got here out on prime, Horvat would have had to purchase a 12 months’s price of For Wellness espresso for a fan.
As one may inform, Mickelson didn’t win and he took the loss in stride on Wednesday in a put up on social media.
He additionally posted a photograph of himself sporting the dark-colored joggers and added a humorous quip.
“As an retro 54 12 months outdated, I by no means thought I may pull off carrying joggers. Guess I used to be improper/ Thanks @GrantHorvatGolf we each received,” Mickelson wrote on X.
The put up was a little bit of a callback to a second within the YouTube video the place Mickelson appeared to doubt that he may pull off the look.
“Wow,” he mentioned. “I’m undecided I may pull that off. Have been joggers meant for 54-year-olds?”
What’s unclear is that if Wednesday’s apply spherical within the athleisure put on satisfies the wager or if Mickelson will probably be sporting them when the match begins on Thursday.
As a part of the match made for YouTube, Horvat began up 5 pictures, which is one thing he does when he performs in opposition to execs on his channel.
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Horvat beforehand posted movies going through off in opposition to the likes of Sergio Garcia and Jon Rahm.
The video was filmed at Mickelson’s residence course in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
Mickelson will look to win his seventh main, joggers and all.
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