In 2017, golf’s elite short game maestro Phil Mickelson dropped the bombshell that he’d build “the single greatest short-game facility in the country.” And build it he did. The next year, Sun Devil Athletics, Mickelson’s alma mater team rolled out a cutting-edge practice facility, the new hangout for Sun Devil Golf. But at Papago Golf Course, instead of the Karsten Golf Course… the original (intended) host of the golf program.
And that’s really where the trouble started. And Phil Mickelson still remembers it. In a recent interview with Andrew Santino, Mickelson explained his personal involvement with the Arizona State University’s project, “It was designed for the golf program, but because you couldn’t give it to the golf program specifically, you got to give it to the university, you