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Tim mickelson linkedin8/5/2023 ![]() “From beginning to end, it was the best seven days of my life,” Tim said. As a captain’s pick, Phil went 3-0-1 and the Americans scored a 19-11 victory. ![]() ![]() The brothers shared some good moments last season, but nothing compared to the Presidents Cup. He’s got a lot to add - and he’s a phenomenal reader of greens.” “He’s able to assess and manage based on how I’m playing. And he’s got a great knowledge base on how to look and assess a golf course, because he did that for so many years as a coach. Of Tim’s work, Phil said last week, “There’s a great energy. “I’m trying to do the best job I can for my guy.” “I’m not trying to do as good a job as Bones did. “With a ball in the middle of the fairway, what’s he thinking is going to be the right club for the situation? Is it 9-iron or 8-iron? Is it a fade or something else? That certainly took some time, and will continue to take time. “I think the most difficult part was getting in sync with exactly what he wants to do,” Tim said. There was certainly an adjustment period for Tim being on the bag and taking over for Mackay, who looped for Phil for 25 years and was considered one of the best at his craft. I can’t even imagine how it going to feel when we get a win.” It’s the same as it was before six months ago. “There has been absolutely nothing that surprised me about our relationship. The boys have remained close throughout their adult lives. He insisted that because Phil is seven years older, there wasn’t a sibling rivalry – over sports, school or girls - when they were kids. Over the holidays, Tim said the brothers and their dad played golf twice at Balboa Park. Tim said he’s looking forward to watching more activities with Phil’s two kids who are still at home. Tim, his parents, sister Tina, her husband and two kids went to Big Bear over the holidays. Tim, who has moved to Carlsbad, spoke of taking down the Christmas decorations with his parents, Phil Sr., and Mary, who live in the same house as when the kids were little. And, indirectly, I’m going to end up spending more time with everyone else in my family.” “I thought it would be neat to be out here more, to spend more time with my brother. “The biggest thing is, it’s family,” he said. 2 in the world, is the defending champion this week in the Farmers, while Phil MIckelson is a three-time winner and competing at Torrey Pines for the 29th time. Rahm, who won last week’s CareerBuilder Challenge to climb to No. And he knows that if he ever needs anything that I’d be there for him and vice versa.” Tim wants to make one thing clear: “Jon and I are great. At that point, it’s sort of a decision I had to make.” “Phil needed a guy 100 percent devoted to him, and Jon needed someone 100 percent. “They both deserved somebody full time,” Tim Mickelson said. The player is now being handled by Loy, with agent Jeff Koski taking over his affairs in the U.S. He is Phil’s full-time caddie and is not representing Rahm. It was another tough call, but Tim chose caddying, and this time he is all in. He sought Rahm’s permission to have that talk. It was not much of a surprise when Phil asked Tim to return to the bag in 2018. ![]() Team Mickelson didn’t notch a win in 2017 to end’s Phil’s victory drought that has stretched into a fifth year, but they enjoyed the togetherness and camaraderie, and being on the winning Presidents Cup team was a blast. “He said, ‘There’s not a lot that you have to do for me on a day-to-day basis, and our schedules are kind of the same. “We talked to Jon, and he was great about it,” Tim Mickelson said. But there’s nothing like a blood bond, or the chance to get inside the ropes with a brother whose Hall of Fame career stands among the greatest of all time. Tim Mickelson said he thought of the affable Spaniard as a family member. The player was poised for a meteoric rise, with Tim sharing in Rahm’s first PGA Tour victory in the Farmers Insurance Open in January. He had been Rahm’s agent for less than a year. The situation was rather complicated, and Tim was torn. “Until the day he called, I had never envisioned myself as a caddie for him or as a caddie on the PGA Tour.” “We had never talked about it,” Tim Mickelson recalled last week while sitting on the patio at La Quinta Country Club. Big brother wanted to know if little brother wanted to pick up his bag. Phil and his the only caddie he had as a pro, Jim “Bones” Mackay, had parted ways. ![]()
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