{"id":35037,"date":"2025-03-05T00:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/phil-mickelson-rips-couples-for-jerk-move-comments-about-koepka-and-liv\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T00:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:12:25","slug":"phil-mickelson-rips-couples-for-jerk-move-comments-about-koepka-and-liv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/phil-mickelson-rips-couples-for-jerk-move-comments-about-koepka-and-liv\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson rips Couples for \u2018jerk move\u2019 comments about Koepka and LIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Couples suggested Koepka may return to PGA Tour<\/li>\n<li>Mickelson offers fierce riposte on social media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phil Mickelson has opened a war of words with a fellow Masters champion, accusing Fred Couples of a \u201clow class jerk move\u201d with comments relating to Brooks Koepka.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has swirled for some time that Koepka, who joined the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV circuit in a $100m deal in 2022, is seeking a return to the PGA Tour. The lack of competitive rounds available on LIV is supposedly of concern to Koepka. Couples fuelled that suggestion when speaking to a US radio station this week. \u201cHe wants to come back,\u201d Couples said of Koepka. \u201cI will say that I believe he really wants to come back and play the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/04\/phil-mickelson-fred-couples-liv\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couples suggested Koepka may return to PGA Tour Mickelson offers fierce riposte on social media Phil Mickelson has opened a war of words with a fellow Masters champion, accusing Fred Couples of a \u201clow class jerk move\u201d with comments relating to Brooks Koepka. Speculation has swirled for some time that Koepka, who joined the Saudi &#8230; <a title=\"Phil Mickelson rips Couples for \u2018jerk move\u2019 comments about Koepka and LIV\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/phil-mickelson-rips-couples-for-jerk-move-comments-about-koepka-and-liv\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Phil Mickelson rips Couples for \u2018jerk move\u2019 comments about Koepka and LIV\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}