TUCSON — Pro golfers at several golf tournaments on Sunday wore red and black as a way to show support for Tiger Woods, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a bad car wreck.

That included Phil Mickelson, competing in the PGA Tour Champions Cologuard Classic at the Omni Tucson National Resort. But the story-behind-the-story is that Mickelson, who starred at Arizona State, had to buy and wear an Arizona Wildcats golf shirt.

“So two things happened today. I wore red on Sunday in honor of Tiger to let him know that the players support him and appreciate all that he’s done, and I had to buy a red shirt and of course every red shirt here has a big A on it. I hope he knows that we’re supporting him. Because that was a lot for me to do that.”

The red collared shirt was easily visible but he kept his black pullover on the entire day, mostly because Sunday was a chilly, windy day in Tucson but also, no doubt, as a way of keeping the Arizona block A logo under wraps.