Mickelson and Singh in verbal spat at Masters

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AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Champion Phil Mickelson and world number one Vijay Singh were involved in a war of words over spike marks during the weather-hit U.S. Masters first round.

The American left-hander had an official complaint lodged against him by former winner Singh, who complained to tournament officials that Mickelson's golf shoes had caused spike marks on the 12th green.

The two players were later said to have had a heated discussion in the champions' locker room over the incident on Friday.

"After sitting in the locker room for a while, I heard Vijay talking to other players about it and I confronted him," world number four Mickelson said in a statement.

"He expressed his concerns and I expressed my disappointment with the way it was handled. I believe everything is fine now."

A tournament official told Reuters: "I understand there was a complaint from Vijay and one of our referees was called in to inspect the spikes (spike marks) and to take off any offending burrs.

"Some of the spikes were quite old ones but I understand Vijay wanted something done about it. It was not a problem after that."

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Mickelson said he had been approached by two officials at two different times while he played the 13th hole after 2000 champion Singh, in the group behind, asked for the spike marks to be cleaned up.

"They were sent by Vijay to check my spikes because he felt they were unduly damaging the greens," said the 34-year-old. "If that is the case, I am very apologetic and will make every effort to tap down what spike marks I may make in the future.

"Given the wet and slippery conditions, more than a third of the field is using steel spikes."

Masters rules chairman Will Nicholson later added that no further action was taken.

"No, there wasn't a ruling," he told reporters. "We got a call and how it got labelled on to Phil I have no idea.

"One of our officials talked to Phil to see if there was a burr on the side of one of his spikes. He very generously, as you know he would, said he would change them when he got in if there was any problem.

"There wasn't. If there were those spike marks, they were created by a person or persons unknown." Reuters <!-- article text ends -->
 

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Vijay Singh should stay in India.............Every normal person hates the guy...hes a prick.....FU VIJAY...........
 

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Agree with 4256 on this.....Vijay blew it with me when he dissed Anaka Sorenstam a couple years ago....we call'em dang ferners down here in Georgy....LOL.
 

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Great ... now they're even outsourcing our golfers .... geez. ;)
 

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ok ....VIJAY should stay in FIJI.....You can just tell the guy is a putz...
 

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That's a totally candy ass move by Singh, what a *****...


No balls to approach Phil himself...
 

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#1cheater# said:
That's a totally candy ass move by Singh, what a *****...


No balls to approach Phil himself...
I agree.

Do it man to man. I always hated roomates who left post its with complaints rather than just tell me.


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Anyone see the segment on HBO real sports about Vijay?

To recap from memory:

Kicked off of some tour (maybe Japan) for CHEATING!!

Parted ways with caddie and afterwards caddie said he just did not like Vijays attitude no matter how much money he was getting paid. Vijay responds by calling him a drunk.

Last golfer I disliked this much was Duval. Maybe Vijay can suffer Duvals fate.
 

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I habe heard Vijay is a nice guy maybe old fashioned but most pros really like him
 

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