Phil Mickelson Says He Would Debate Brandel Chamblee on LIV Golf With One Important Parameter

Phil Mickelson and Brandel Chamblee have been exchanging heated messages on Twitter this week about the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league—despite the two having each other blocked on the social media platform. 

In response to the online spat, Chamblee invited Mickelson to come on the set of Golf Channel’s Live From at the U.S. Open to continue discussing the hot button issue, and now Mickelson has responded to that offer.

It sounds like the six-time major champion is willing to duke it out with the TV personality face-to-face, but he has one important requirement for the debate. 

“I’d love to do it on another network. I don’t want to help golf channel in ANY way or help him,” Mickelson wrote in a Twitter reply on Friday night. “He hasn’t faced anyone who has nothing to lose and is sick of his endless attacks. He doesn’t deal well with rebuttals or unrehearsed debates (or tweets).” 

The replies to Mickelson’s tweet are filled with podcasters offering up their own platforms to host the conversation, including the Fire Pit Collective as well as Barstool Sports’s Foreplay podcast. 

It remains to be seen whether Mickelson and Chamblee will share a stage to express their opposing perspectives, but if they do, the debate will undoubtedly be one to watch. 

Mickelson added the another tweet to the discourse on Friday morning, in which he noted that he’s “done taking [Chamblee’s] s— quietly.”