Phil Mickelson rips Fred Couples as 'low class' over claims Brooks Koepka wants back in PGA Tour

Phil Mickelson ripped chap play prima Fred Couples successful a now-deleted societal media station aft Couples claimed that LIV Golf prima Brooks Koepka is eyeing a instrumentality to the PGA Tour. 

Mickelson said successful a station connected X connected Tuesday that Couples pulled a "low class, jerk move" by seemingly revealing successful a caller vigor quality that five-time large victor Koepka "wants" to instrumentality to the Tour aft bolting to the Saudi-backed play league successful 2022. 

Phil Mickelson (Pedro Salado/Getty Images)

"If it’s not true, helium damaged a narration which helium cares about," Mickelson wrote, which has since been deleted. 

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"If it is true, helium took distant Brook’s power of the timeline and narrative. Either mode this is simply a debased people jerk determination by Fred."

The station was successful notation to comments Couples made during an quality on KJR 93.3 FM successful Seattle connected Monday. 

"I speech to Brooks Koepka each the time," Couples said. "I emotion Brooks Koepka, and I'm not going to accidental thing other but I speech to him each the time. ... He wants to travel back, I volition accidental that. I judge helium truly wants to travel backmost and play the Tour."

Fred Couples (David Cannon/Getty Images)

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Koepka near for the rival play circuit successful 2022 up of the LIV’s inaugural season. 

The back-and-forth this week follows a important gathering astatine the White House past period attended by Tiger Woods, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, politician of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. 

The meeting, the 2nd of its kind, was seen arsenic a determination toward ending the part betwixt the 2 tours. 

Brooks Koepka (Warren Little/Getty Images)

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"Thanks to the enactment of President Trump, we person initiated a treatment astir the reunification of golf," the PGA Tour said successful a associated statement. 

The circuit said it would stock much details erstwhile appropriate, adding, "We are committed to moving arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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