the trash talk had begun two weeks earlier longtime rivals tiger woods and phil mickelson will take on each other at the capital ones the match champions for charity at medalist golf club florida on sunday accompanied by national football league nfl heroes peyton manning and tom brady but before stepping foot on the course the war of words had started in a video chat all with a smile thoughmickelson showed everyone a picture of him receiving the masters green jacket from tiger only for defending champion woods to get up and cover himself with the green jacket he won last year its getting a little chilly here woods said grinning cue laughteron sunday there will be the more serious matter of raising funds of 10 million minimum for covid19 charity but the trash talk is set to continue the tigerphil stats are astounding a combined 983 pga tour tournaments played producing 126 victories including 20 majors and 67 secondplace finishesthe numbers shared by the pga tour showed woods and mickelson have played in the same grouping 37 times on tour with woods shooting the better score 18 times to mickelsons 15 woods has won 10 times compared to mickelsons five when they went head to head in the same group they have finished 12 in tour events nine times over the course of their sterling careers beginning at the 1998 sentry tournament of championsthe most memorable was the 2005 ford championship at doral in miami woods won by one shot it was electric remembers woodsthe 2002 us open at bethpage state park black farmingdale new york was the only time theyve finished 12 in a major woods was not at his best on the final day but began the final round five shots ahead of mickelson he bogeyed each of his first two holes and two of his last three but resilient tiger shot 72 and held on to win by three strokesaccording to mickelson tiger made all the milliondollar cheques possible in golf by putting the game on the front page but the real turnaround in their relationship came in 2016 when they teamed up for the ryder cup tiger was the assistant captainwe ended up spending a lot of time on the phone getting ready talking about players picks statistics alternate shot course setup and all these things mickelson told the dan patrick show and getting an idea to see how prepared he was and how meticulous with each little thing i had a new respect for him but when we worked together for a common goal which was to win the ryder cup it brought us closer i think that was kind of the turning pointmanning who will be teaming up with tiger had this to share about the sports comeback i dont think anybody wants to see tom brady and i hit golf balls as much as they want to see these two hall of famers play golf im glad as a sports