While at the PGA Tour Champions breakfast in Newport Beach this week, a former major champion and fan favorite sounded off on LIV trio Phil Mickelson, Cam Smith and Sergio Garcia.

As reported by the Orange County Register, Fred Couples was a guest speaker prior to this week’s Hoag Classic, and didn’t hold back when talking about the controversial golf tour and Phil.

“If you’re giving Phil Mickelson $200 million at age 52 to shoot 74 and 75, God bless you,”

“I don’t have a problem with LIV,” Couples clarified. “What my problem has been when I tweet every now and then, is what these guys say when they go to the LIV Tour.”

Couples then criticized Cameron Smith, while refusing to actually say his name. “The guy who won The Players Championship and British Open last year,” Couples paraphrased Smith, “Now I can have birthdays and go to the weddings of my mates.”

“I find that comical, because my favorite to ever play has five kids, 40 grandkids, and he has never missed anything – and that was Jack Nicklaus,” he said, then added that he was annoyed by “all these other clowns, like Sergio (Garcia)”.

Couples then circled back to Mickelson, calling him a “nutbag”.

“Just go to the LIV Tour but stop blasting something I’ve been a part of for 42 years, that’s my problem (with LIV players). They’re all bashing the PGA Tour, and that affects me a little bit.”

“It was on the CW a couple weeks ago, or whatever that channel everybody is laughing about, I turned it on three times. It was so bad, I couldn’t even watch anyone that I liked. They don’t show ’em. … Who won the last one? I don’t even know.”

It’s safe to say that the 1992 Masters Champion won’t be tuning in to LIV Golf Tucson this week.

Article originally appeared on: Golfwrx.com