After a disappointing four-over 74 Saturday in the third round of the PGA Championship, Justin Thomas retreated to the practice range at Southern Hills Country Club to work out some frustration and perhaps work in a little fine-tuning.
It’s nothing personal. Tiger Woods made that abundantly clear on Tuesday morning at the PGA Championship—that his disagreement with Phil Mickelson, the defending champion whose absence is dominating chatter at Southern Hills, is strictly a difference in opinion.
Phil Mickelson has been sighted for the first time since February when he took time away from the game in the wake of his controversial comments about the upstart Saudi-backed golf league
After insulting the Saudi Government and openly admitting he was using the now named LIV Golf Invitational Series as leverage against the PGA Tour’s “obnoxious greed”, you might have thought Phil Mickelson would be persona non grata to the breakaway league.
The subject of “transparency” in relation to the tour’s business – be it financials, the levying of player fines and suspensions, or even the results of voting for Player of the Year – has become a growing topic of discussion in recent weeks and was reiterated on Tuesday in a press conference at TPC Sawgrass.
The Players Championship boasts the best field in golf, but the player who dominated commissioner Jay Monahan’s press conference Wednesday (AEDT) is one who isn’t here.
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…
Australian Golf Digest
