What was it like working at Phil Mickelson’s golf clubs?

Phil Mickelson is an enigma in many ways, but a big one is its hardware.

On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, Callaway tour content manager Johnny Thompson, who was once Mickelson’s tour representative when the six-time major winner was sponsored by Callaway, sat down to share some of his stories working with him.

Thompson said his first interactions with Mickelson came in 2011. Thompson was in his first year representing Callaway’s Odyssey at the Masters when Mickelson asked him to fix his loft and putt. one of his 8802 style PM players.

Those gauges were extremely difficult to fit into a loft and stretch machine without many places to anchor the gauge, and Thompson accidentally let it slip and scratched it.

“I was trying to get this thing into the match and then I put enough pressure on it and it slipped off my setup and it got scratched,” Thompson said. “And I mean, I was pissed.”

When he showed the putter, Mickelson was thankfully unfazed by the error.

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“He looks at it and he’s like, ‘I don’t even see that, whatever,'” Thompson recalled. “And he was fine with it. So I’m like, thank God.”

But Thompson’s favorite Mickelson story happened later Boston at the Deutsche Bank Championship.

Thompson had a fun but long night the day before the tournament, as he described it — and the next morning he got a call from Mickelson’s staffer, Jim “Bones” Mackay, a personal friend of his since she was his childhood babysitter.

“He goes, ‘Hey, can you meet Phil on the green?’ And I’m like, yeah, no problem,” Thompson said. “Walk and he has one custom made Sabertooth belly pin in the bag. And he’s trying to figure out how to use this belly.

“And he’s asking me all these questions about how to use my stomach. And I mean, I’m in the deepest fog mentally since my night out. And I had to absorb it and just try to answer all these questions.

“And finally we were like over and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what happened, what happened? Like, I can’t believe I just had to go through it and it was going 100 percent.’

“But yeah, I was watching him try and I think he used it that way, he said horribly.”

Fortunately, Mickelson didn’t blame Thompson for his performance on the greens, but Thompson said it was one of the most in-depth conversations he’d had with him up to that point.

“It was the first time he ever asked me, like, my thoughts on the matter. And it’s a night that year that I probably had the longest night,” he said.

For more from Thompson and Fully Equipped co-hosts Johnny Wunder and Jake Morrow, listen up Full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped hereor see below.

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