Phil Mickelson choked on a gimme putt this week, but it wasn’t on a golf course.According to the AP’s golf writer, America’s most popular golfer “put his popularity on the line with polarizing comments about how much he has to pay in state and federal taxes.”“Polarizing comments”? Good grief.Now it’s “polarizing” for an American to hint that because of the higher federal and state income tax rates on millionaires leveled by Sacramento and Washington, he might have to migrate to Florida or Texas?Though he had every right to, Mickelson didn’t knock Obama or gripe like a Tea Partier about the federal, state and local tax bite on his estimated $45 million in annual earnings – about 62 percent.Mickelson spoke the truth. Most pro golfers already live in Florida, and for good reason.