![]() ![]() Shipnuck has reported that Mickelson lost $40 million gambling from 2010-2014. It was reckless, I offended people, and I am deeply sorry for my choice of words.” Mickelson, long a fan-favorite who at last year’s PGA made history by becoming the oldest player, at 50, to win a major, won’t defend his title in Oklahoma sponsors such as Workday and KPMG have dropped him. He also apologized saying: ” I used words I sincerely regret that do not reflect my true feelings or intentions. I’m not sure I even want to succeed, but just the idea of it is allowing us to get things done with the Tour.” Mickelson, one of the most popular players in golf, who captivated the country by becoming the oldest player, at 50, to win a major championship, has taken a hiatus after those comments were published in February. And the Saudi money has finally given us that leverage. As nice a guy as comes across as, unless you have leverage, he won’t do what’s right. They’ve been able to get by with manipulative, coercive, strong-arm tactics because we, the players, had no recourse. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates. ![]() They execute people over there for being gay. “We know they killed Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. “They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with,” Mickelson told Shipnuck. But Saudi riches were too good to ignore. Mickelson, according to Shipnuck, told him he agreed with the sports washing assessment. intelligence report, for example, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. Saudi Arabia’s critics have labeled the kingdom’s massive recent investment in sports like golf and Formula 1 as a classic example of “sports washing,” or using the sheen of sports as a way of whitewashing an autocratic nation’s human rights record. Defending PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson, for example, told author Alan Shipnuck, whose biography of Mickelson was released Tuesday, that he and three other nameless “top players” paid for lawyers to write the LIV Golf operating agreement. These eye-popping figures have attracted the attention of the world’s best golfers. A team winning team of four splits a $16 million first prize the total purse for the team final is $50 million. The best individual performer across the LIV Golf competition earns $18 million equal to what the champion of the PGA Tour’s season-ending competition, the FedEx Cup, will earn: LIV Golf, however, throws in a team competition in its last event. The total purse of each LIV event is $25 million the PGA Championship total purse is half that, at $12 million. The winner of each of the seven “regular-season events” receives $4 million by contrast, the winner of the PGA Championship, a major, gets $2.16 million. Each event will feature 48 players, who will play three instead of the four rounds standard on the PGA Tour. ![]()
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