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Perhaps Phil Mickelson has had ample of Alan Shipnuck or Greg Norman wished to make a stage. 

Both technique, one of many strangest days in current golf historic earlier ended on the Centurion Golf Membership close to London on Thursday night time time with Shipnuck, the writer of “Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colourful Celebrity,” being faraway from what’s generally known as the flash interview space on the LIV Golf Invitational Sequence inaugural occasion.

Shipnuck, a companion for The Hearth Pit Collective, traveled to the UK for the occasion and adopted Mickelson all by his opening spherical. Afterward, Mickelson spoke to members of the press, as is customary.

Nevertheless, Shipnuck was not allowed to hitch.

He wrote on Twitter:

“Properly, a pair of neckless safety dudes simply bodily eliminated me from Phil Mickelson’s press convention, saying they had been appearing on orders from their boss, whom they refused to call. (Greg Norman? MBS? Al Capone?) By no means a uninteresting second up in right here.” 

Golfweek reached out to Shipnuck, who replied in a textual content material materials message: “I used to be credentialed and I used to be standing within the flash space initially of Phil’s presser after they got here for me.”

Not permitting a credentialed press member to attend a participant’s press convention is excellent on utterly completely different golf excursions, nonetheless factors acquired stranger contained in the moments afterward.

Shipnuck despatched textual content material materials messages to LIV Golf’s commissioner, Greg Norman, to diploma out the incident, and Norman replied that he had not heard about it. Shipnuck didn’t know when he despatched the message that Norman had seen the whole issue.

In an e-mail to Golfweek, Shipnuck talked about: “I’ve no sick will towards Phil. I simply wished to ask him one boring golf query, which is my job. Both he’s being method too delicate or the LIV people are being too overprotective however, both method, they’re overreacting.”

This incident comes two days after Related Press reporter Rob Harris was lower off, faraway from the LIV media coronary coronary heart and reprimanded by LIV officers for not being “well mannered.” Harris was allowed as soon as extra into the media coronary coronary heart about 10 minutes later, based on ESPN.

“The safety guards had been inappropriately aggressive and bodily, contemplating I used to be simply standing there attempting to make sense of the weird causes they had been citing for eager to take away me,” Shipnuck talked about.

The second spherical of the LIV Golf London occasion is Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET. LIV Golf doesn’t have a TV deal nonetheless is streaming the event on its YouTube channel.

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“This entire scenario is messy and ridiculous,” Shipnuck talked about to Golfweek. “If I’ve one different boring golf question for Phil I’ll ask it consequently of I did fly 6,000 miles to be proper right here and I’m not inclined to be silenced by Greg Norman and his goons.

“Or possibly I’ll simply concentrate on Chantananuwat Ratchanon. … he looks like a pleasant child.”

Golfweek’s Steve DiMeglio contributed to this textual content material.