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Mickelson pokes fun at marshal after shot hits him on head

Phil Mickelson hit an unsuspecting marshal in the head with a wayward tee shot, before hitting him with a tongue-in-cheek sledge.

Playing the 15th hole during the first round of the US PGA Memorial Tournament on Friday, Mickelson watched as his shot sailed right of the fairway and struck the man.

Image: PGA
Image: PGA

"I saw the ball shoot across the fairway, but usually when you hit somebody, you'll see people congregate. So I thought maybe it hit a cart or hit something else, but it hit this guy in the head," Mickelson said.

"He looked like Ali taking hits because he didn't go down. He didn't go down at all. He was just laughing about it. Yeah, no big deal. Hit me in the head. And the ball went shooting across the fairway from the right rough into the left rough. I don't know how it did. He was smiling. That was impressive."

Mickelson signed a golf glove and gifted it to the marshal, but not before poking some fun at him.

"If your head was a touch softer I'd still be on the fairway."