Tiger Woods reportedly spurned an offer in the ‘high nine figures’ to join Greg Norman’s rebel tour,while Phil Mickelson will play the inaugural event outside London.
Besides piles of Saudi cash,can Greg Norman’s controversial golf league offer anything important to a player’s legacy,history or reputation? No. So is it really a “threat” to the PGA Tour?
Perhaps,when we pour out our admiration to athletes,we should remember that the inner vacancy might itself be a prerequisite for the outer heroics.
Tiger Woods has torn into defending champion Phil Mickelson for siding with the Saudis and putting his own interests above that of the Tour ahead of the PGA Championship.
As someone who has known Phil Mickelson for almost 30 years,one word comes to mind after all the recent debacles:sad.
Phil Mickelson reportedly will not play the Masters next month,scheduled from April 7-10,which would mark his first time missing the prestigious major since 1994.
As if Phil Mickelson needed any more negative publicity,Tiger Woods has ridiculed him for celebrating too early in the PGA Tour’s inaugural staging of its contentious popularity competition.
In a lengthy note shared on social media on Tuesday,Phil Mickelson apologised for his “choice of words” in recently published comments and suggested he might take a break from competitive golf.
Phil Mickelson has dropped some truth bombs about Saudi Arabia.
The penultimate major of the year begins on Thursday with Spain’s world No.3 Jon Rahm the one to beat and Phil Mickelsen chasing the one gap on his impressive resume.
You didn’t have to be an oldster yourself to recognise Mickelson’s achievement,but if you were,you might have wanted him to win as much as a sports fan can want anything.