No player has been as outspoken against a Saudi-backed golf league as Rory McIlroy, and his candour has extended to those toying with jumping to the proposed breakaway circuit. One of those targets was Phil Mickelson, with McIlroy calling Mickelson’s now infamous comments “naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant” at the Genesis Invitational. But in the wake Read more…
Callaway and Workday have joined the list of sponsors who are distancing themselves from Phil Mickelson after his controversial statements and involvement with a prospective Saudi-backed golf league.
e are gear heads. It’s a passion that has its own lexicon, and you’ll see plenty of this vocabulary scattered across the issue. But we recognise it’s a vocabulary not known to all.
Bryson DeChambeau, long rumoured to be in discussions with a proposed Saudi-back golf league, released a statement Monday that, for now, he is staying put on the PGA Tour.
Former US President Donald Trump’s golf organisation is in talks to host tournaments for the proposed Saudi golf league, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Phil Mickelson’s association with a proposed Saudi-back golf league is many things. A financial windfall, a power play, a move spurred by misguided vengeance. But if Thursday’s report from the Fire Pit Collective is true, he’s not so much an associate of the Super Golf League as he is an architect.
For the moment, the proposed Super Golf League remains just that, hearty in concept but short on substantive matter. What is clear is the PGA Tour’s stance towards the wannabe global tour, a position Commissioner Jay Monahan has not strayed from since the threat materialised two years ago: them, or us.
Brooks Koepka traffics in trolling, and give the man this: He is democratic in his aim. On Thursday, Phil Mickelson was the latest target for the four-time Major winner.
Australian Golf Digest
