Mickelson also said he and three top players had paid attorneys to write the operating agreement of a rival league. Mickelson also apologized to LIV Golf Investments, the group run by Greg Norman and financed mainly by the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.īut he made no mention of the PGA Tour or its commissioner Jay Monahan, which he referred to as a “dictatorship” in the Shipnuck interview.
Shipnuck, who previously wrote for Sports Illustrated, tweeted Tuesday that Mickelson’s claims he spoke off the record were “completely false.” Shipnuck wrote on The Fire Pit Collective, where he published Mickelson’s comments last week, that “not once did he say our conversation was off-the-record or on background or just between us or anything remotely like that. “But the bigger issue is that I used words I sincerely regret that do not reflect my true feelings or intentions.” “There is the problem of off record comments being shared out of context and without my consent,” he said. Mickelson said he has always put the interests of golf first, “although it doesn’t look this way now given my recent comments.” “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,” he said. “We know they killed (Washington Post columnist Jamal) Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights.
He also told Shipnuck, who is writing a biography on Mickelson due out in May, that it was worth getting in bed with the Saudis, despite their history of human rights abuses, if it meant a chance to change the PGA Tour.
In explosive remarks, Mickelson told Shipnuck the Saudis behind a proposed breakaway rival league were “scary mother (expletive)s to get involved with.” Mickelson said of his comments to author and golf writer Alan Shipnuck, “I'm beyond disappointed and will make every effort to self-reflect and learn from this.” “We wish him the best,” KPMG said in a statement. The same time as Mickelson's statement, KPMG became the first of his corporate sponsors to announce an immediate end to their partnership, a decision KPMG said was mutual.
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