Phil Mickelson’s second job as an assistant coach at Arizona State, his alma mater, lasted all of two months.
Mickelson was added on the staff by his brother, Tim Mickelson, the Sun Devils’ men’s golf coach, in November, but Lefty told reporters at the Waste Management Phoenix Open that he has lost his job.
“I recently got fired from that position,” said Mickelson, who had been contacting high school prospects and trying to convince them to attend Arizona State. “We had developed a plan to where I could call some recruits. We weren’t really going to say anything, and hadn’t said anything for a few weeks, until one of the players had tweeted it and it looked like there were some improprieties, which there weren’t.
“So we had to publicly announce I was assistant captain, otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to make the phone calls I had been making. … (But) my brother needed a real assistant to help out with a bunch of the things going on, with the traveling. So I got fired.”
Mickelson, who graduated from University of San Diego High in 1988, was an All-American at Arizona State, where he won the NCAA individual title three times and led the Sun Devils to the team title in 1990.
