Every year there are a countless number of golf predictions made by so-called “experts” that are proven wrong. Hand up here. (Although, we still hope you’ll check out our 13 best picks for the upcoming PGA Championship!)

But one extremely bold prognostication turned out to be hilariously wrong on Sunday. And it involved one of the best golfers of all time talking about the current best golfer on the planet.

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We’re talking about Phil Mickelson’s random “hot take” that he put out on Twitter in March to CBS analyst and fellow Masters champ Trevor Immelman. Lefty zagged from the pack by predicting Scottie wouldn’t win a PGA Tour event before the Ryder Cup in September.

Like we said, BOLD. At the time, Scheffler hadn’t won his first five starts of 2025. It was a slow start by the standards of someone coming off a historic season, but it was only five starts. And the World No. 1 was coming off that Christmas Day ravioli kitchen accident that required surgery on his right hand.

Since that tweet, Scheffler finished runner-up, fourth (at the Masters), and T-8 at Hilton Head. And then on Sunday he won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. By EIGHT shots. With nearly five months to spare before that Ryder Cup. Whoops. Anyway, Mickelson addressed his hilariously wrong take on Sunday night.

Hey, good for Phil for admitting when he was wrong. Way wrong. Hopefully, he didn’t put his money where his mouth was on that one. Or, where his fingers were tweeting. Either way, we thank him for making all of our predictions look better.

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