Phil Mickelson apologized again after Ashley Perez said he showed her a nude photo of himself with an erection during a 2015 Barclays tournament trip. The allegation moved from private talk to public dispute in November 2022, when Pat Perez said Mickelson crossed a line that was “uncrossable and unforgivable.”
Liberty National Golf Course villa
During the 2015 Barclays tournament, Mickelson stayed in a villa at Liberty National Golf Course and called Ashley Perez at a sushi restaurant to say he had arranged for the Perezes to move there. Ashley Perez said the texts that started after she married Pat Perez in 2014 felt friendly at first, including good morning messages, but later felt like grooming. She said, “I was so young and innocent. I’m just this girl from Oklahoma and it’s like, I can’t believe Phil Mickelson wants to be my buddy! And he’s sending me good morning texts! Looking back now, it definitely feels like I was being groomed.”
Pat Perez and Ashley Perez drank red wine with Mickelson on the patio of his villa while staying near Liberty National Golf Course. Ashley Perez said that is when he showed her a full-body picture of himself naked with an erection while flexing one bicep. In the same account, she said Mickelson told her, “I’m going to leave my bedroom door open tonight. When Pat falls asleep I want you to come see me.”
Pat Perez in November 2022
Pat Perez said on Claude Harmon’s podcast in November 2022 that Mickelson had crossed a line and could not be forgiven. He said, “I have a different hate for Phil than most people. And people won’t know the story—I’m not gonna go into the story again—but Phil crossed the line with me that is just uncrossable and unforgivable. He knows that he screwed up. He apologized for the action, but I cannot forgive him for it.”
Ashley Perez said she still has a recording of the phone call between Mickelson and Pat Perez, and the 26-minute exchange added the detail that made the public version harder to dismiss. When Pat Perez said Mickelson had shown a naked photo of himself to Ashley Perez, Mickelson replied, “You mean topless?” Pat Perez answered, “That’s a real problem. If you don’t remember these things, that’s a fucking problem. That means you’ve got a lot of fucking shit going on.”
Madison Club in La Quinta
Mickelson later apologized to Pat Perez during a corporate outing at the Madison Club in La Quinta, California, then apologized again after the November 2022 comments went viral. On the call, he said, “I can’t tell you how disgusted and embarrassed I am in myself.” The sequence matters because the allegation did not stay frozen in 2015; it resurfaced years later, carrying a second apology and a public record that now includes Ashley Perez’s version, Pat Perez’s refusal to forgive, and Mickelson’s own words.
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