The hole that Phil Mickelson fell into recently just keeps getting deeper. New details about the accusations of lewd approaches of the six-time major champion were brought to light by Alan Shipnuck.
In his June 26, 2026, report, he dived deeper into what exactly went down between Pat Perez, his wife Ashley Perez and Mickelson in that 2015 Barclays tournament dinner.
Mickelson approached Ashley Perez, who had newly married Pat Perez in 2014, in a friendly way first.
“I was so young and innocent. It’s like, I can’t believe Phil Mickelson wants to be my buddy,” Ashley Perez confessed to Shipnuck. “He’s sending me good morning texts! Looking back now, it definitely feels like I was being groomed.”
Ashley and Pat Perez were having dinner at a sushi restaurant when Ashley’s phone screen lit up with a call from Mickelson. An enticing invitation to his luxury villa at the Liberty National Golf Course, according to the report.
Sometime during the night, while they were drinking wine on the patio, Perez left his wife and Mickelson alone to head to the bathroom.
The 56-year-old golfer took this chance to approach Ashley with “a full-body picture of himself naked with an erection while flexing one bicep,” according to the report.
GettyPat Perez poses with his wife, Ashley.
“Phil says to me, ‘I’m going to leave my bedroom door open tonight. When Pat falls asleep, I want you to come see me.’” Ashley Perez told Shipknuck.
After the details reached Pat Perez’s ears, the friendship turned to hatred and has continued over the years. Despite Mickelson apologizing to him twice, the hatred remains, Shipnuck reported.
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The details of that incident were never made public until Friday. But Ashley Perez said she believed that she should come forward now to encourage women like the beverage cart girl, whom Mickelson was accused of approaching inappropriately at the Santa Fe golf club.
“With Phil, I feel like the pattern has been there for many years, but people have been afraid to go public because it’s Phil Mickelson,” Ashley Perez told Shipnuck. “We give these golfers so much adulation and money, they think they’re gods. They think they’re untouchable.”
Mickelson has denied any wrongdoing in connection to the recent reports. His attorney, Tom Clare, told The Associated Press in a statement that Mickelson resigned from the Santa Fe golf club on his own.
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Ashley Perez was not alone, according to Shipnuck’s report. After 2015, his wife, Amy Mickelson, shied away from the public. She preferred staying home and apparently, Mickelson started drinking more, according to Shipnuck.
During that time, at a dinner with friends, Mickelson approached a female friend, according to the report.
“Something felt off. He was behaving a little odd. Out of nowhere, Phil started asking the most inappropriate questions about my personal life and then propositioning me in graphic detail,” she told Shipnuck. “He went on and on about how he had been fantasizing about me and all the things he wanted to do to me.”
“I was sweating profusely. It felt like verbal rape,” she said, according to the report.
Before the nude selfie incident, a similar situation was also faced by Ashley Perez, according to the report. Mickelson made inappropriate gestures with his two fingers, Shipnuck wrote.
“He was using two fingers to graphically demonstrate some of his techniques to me,” she told Shipnuck.
Mickelson is presently away from the public limelight, tending to a family matter, according to his representatives.
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