Mickelson ‘working on’ potential match with Tiger

With the PGA Tour shut down for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus pandemic, Phil Mickelson says that a repeat of “The Match” against Tiger Woods could be on the way.

The veteran golfer responded to a fan’s question about a repeat of the event with a skeleton crew by simply saying “Working on it.”

@TigerWoods @PhilMickelson do you think there is a chance you two go play a round mic’d up with one camera guy and just put it out there on a stream for people to watch?? We need live sports

— Chris Yurko (@YurkisMaximus) March 29, 2020

Mickelson doubled down when another fan asked him not to be a tease.

Please don’t tease.

— Jon Blumenthal (@JonBlumenthal) March 30, 2020

“The Match” first down on Thanksgiving weekend in 2018 with Mickelson emerging victorious with the $9 million purse, amid several side bets. It was later reported that rematches could be on the way in 2019 and 2020, but those never came to fruition.

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The coronavirus pandemic may have changed that. With nearly the entire sports industry shut down, fans are hungry for just about anything — anything — resembling the sports that have temporarily exited their lives.

Another version of “The Match” with no spectators and just a few cameramen would be a relatively low-risk of delivering an actual sporting event, and networks could be hungry to land such a thing these days. And who knows, maybe the pay-per-view would work this time.

Creds: Yahoo Sports