Country music star and avid golfer Jake Owen apparently didn’t care much for The Match, an 18-hole pay-per-view event last November won by Phil Mickelson over Tiger Woods with a winner-take-all payday of $9 million.
According to ESPN, a day after The Match, held in Las Vegas, Owen was at Jordan Spieth's wedding, which Mickelson also attended. Owen told Barstool Sports' Fore Play podcast recently that he ran into Mickelson and made it clear that he didn't think The Match came off as billed, and that he thought he should get his money back.
"So I walked over to him," Owen said on the podcast. "I was like, 'Hey Phil, you owe me f---ing $29.99!' I was like, 'For wasting four hours of my life with the s---tiest golf I've ever seen!
Mickelson responded by pulling out a wad of cash. “I won 90,000 of these yesterday ..... take $100 and go f--- yourself."
Mickelson is a three-time Masters champion and will compete in the 83rd Masters next week in Augusta.
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