Why Phil Mickelson told country singer Jake Owen to 'go f*** yourself'

Taryn Ryder

Today’s funny feud alert is brought to you by Jake Owen. The country star revealed he got into a verbal spat with Phil Mickelson last year that ended in some expletives flying.

The “Alone With You” singer stopped by Barstool’s “ForePlay” podcast Monday and recalled the time the pro-golfer told him, “go f*** yourself.” The altercation happened at Jordan Speith’s wedding last November over Mickelson’s pay-per-view match with Tiger Woods that occurred the previous day. Owen said they had run into each other once before, but that Mickelson “didn’t really” know him.

Jake Owen and Phil Mickelson. (Photo: Getty Images)
Jake Owen and Phil Mickelson. (Photo: Getty Images)

“I had a few cocktails and I saw him across the room and I was like, ‘I gotta go tell this guy what I think.’ I was like ‘Hey, Phil… you owe me f***ing $29.99 for wasting four hours of my life with the s***tiest golf I’ve ever seen,’” Owen remembered saying. “’You guys couldn’t even make three birdies between the two of you, I want my $29.99 back and apologize to me for some s***ty golf.’”

Mickelson responded by pulling “out a wad” of hundred dollar bills.

“He’s like, ‘Ya, I won 90,000 of these yesterday. Take a hundred and go f*** yourself,” Owen recounted. “Right to my face!”

Owen, whose then-pregnant girlfriend had to remind him about the incident the next morning, ran into Mickelson two months later at the Phoenix Open Pro-Am. Naturally, they were randomly paired together, but the golfer had a sense of humor about it all.

“This is what I like about Phil even more now… he’s the funniest, coolest dude in the world,” Owen said. “He told me, ‘Jake I loved that you did that… it was really funny.'”

The encounter was confirmed by Mickelson on Twitter who wrote, “True story.”

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