![]() ![]() Tim, who has moved to Carlsbad, spoke of taking down the Christmas decorations with his parents, Phil Sr., and Mary, who live in the same house as when the kids were little. And, indirectly, I’m going to end up spending more time with everyone else in my family.” “I thought it would be neat to be out here more, to spend more time with my brother. “The biggest thing is, it’s family,” he said. 2 in the world, is the defending champion this week in the Farmers, while Phil MIckelson is a three-time winner and competing at Torrey Pines for the 29th time. Rahm, who won last week’s CareerBuilder Challenge to climb to No. And he knows that if he ever needs anything that I’d be there for him and vice versa.” Tim wants to make one thing clear: “Jon and I are great. At that point, it’s sort of a decision I had to make.” “Phil needed a guy 100 percent devoted to him, and Jon needed someone 100 percent. “They both deserved somebody full time,” Tim Mickelson said. The player is now being handled by Loy, with agent Jeff Koski taking over his affairs in the U.S. He is Phil’s full-time caddie and is not representing Rahm. It was another tough call, but Tim chose caddying, and this time he is all in. He sought Rahm’s permission to have that talk. It was not much of a surprise when Phil asked Tim to return to the bag in 2018. Team Mickelson didn’t notch a win in 2017 to end’s Phil’s victory drought that has stretched into a fifth year, but they enjoyed the togetherness and camaraderie, and being on the winning Presidents Cup team was a blast. “He said, ‘There’s not a lot that you have to do for me on a day-to-day basis, and our schedules are kind of the same. “We talked to Jon, and he was great about it,” Tim Mickelson said. But there’s nothing like a blood bond, or the chance to get inside the ropes with a brother whose Hall of Fame career stands among the greatest of all time. Tim Mickelson said he thought of the affable Spaniard as a family member. The player was poised for a meteoric rise, with Tim sharing in Rahm’s first PGA Tour victory in the Farmers Insurance Open in January. He had been Rahm’s agent for less than a year. The situation was rather complicated, and Tim was torn. “Until the day he called, I had never envisioned myself as a caddie for him or as a caddie on the PGA Tour.” “We had never talked about it,” Tim Mickelson recalled last week while sitting on the patio at La Quinta Country Club. Big brother wanted to know if little brother wanted to pick up his bag. Phil and his the only caddie he had as a pro, Jim “Bones” Mackay, had parted ways. ![]()
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