Phil Mickelson Fires Back: I Don’t Have A Bastard Son!

Golf pro Phil Mickelson isn’t sitting idly by while internet rumormongers claim he fathers a child during an illicit affair. In fact he’s feels so strongly about protecting his image that he is sicking his lawyers on them.

The rumors started when two internet users with the screen names “Fogroller” and “Longitude” began spreading rumors about Mickelson and his bastard son. The messages were posted on a message board and also claimed that the golfer’s wife was having affairs.

The Tiger Woods style claims led to Phil tracking the users I.P. addresses to an internet service provider in Quebec, Canada.

Mickelson’s lawyers are now attempting to convince a Canadian judge to grant a search warrant which would force the ISP to hand over identifying information for the message board posters.

Once that information is made available Phil Mickelson plans to file a defamation lawsuit. In documents filed by his lawyers Mickelson calls the rumors absolutely untrue and vicious. The golfer says that the rumors could hurt his “impeccable reputation.”

In the meantime Phil Mickelson isn’t allowing the rumors to slow him down, he is currently in talks with the management team at Torrey Phones and his hometown city of San Diego to redesign the Torrey Pines golf course at no charge for his work.

Do you think other stars, athletes and public figures should take a stand against rumormongers in the way Phil Mickelson has chosen to do with these internet posters?

Updates will be forthcoming after the judge’s decision is revealed…