ILGU CEO Sinead Heraty: Phil Mickelson would be thrown out by us

Phil Mickelson can count himself lucky he wasn’t playing in an ILGU event when he had his 13th green meltdown at Shinnecock Hills.

While the USGA decided against disqualifying the left-hander for a serious breach of the rules, handing him a two-stroke penalty for hitting a moving ball instead, ILGU CEO Sinead Heraty is convinced he’d have been disqualified for doing the same thing under their watch.

“The issue for us would be the example to Juniors would copy his behaviour,” she said at the official launch of A History of Women’s Golf in Ireland, which was commissioned to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the ILGU this year.