re: Anybody know what’s going on with Phil Mickelson?

Phil was in a dispute with the PGA Tour over certain issues he feels that the marquee players have been given the short end of the stick on.

I think he was using the Saudi Tour as leverage against the PGA Tour. Phil helped spearhead about 10-15 big names to threaten to leave for the other Tour (more like “big names who used to be top 10 players but aren’t any more”).

This was a two year process, that for reasons I can’t figure out, all blew up this week. My guess is that it was because Phil gave an interview in which he let it slip that he was bluffing, and that comment became public this week.

Phil is likely being suspended by the Tour, as Phil announced today he is taking a break from golf to refocus on what’s important. But I can’t see anyway whatsoever that Phil isn’t teeing it up at Augusta National this April as the reigning PGA Champion.

Phil has made a mess of this, we’ll see if he can bounce back. Not so much playing wise, just popularity wise with the fans and his fellow competitors on the tour.

Phil isn’t being canceled for saying anything good or bad about the Saudi’s, he’s being canceled by the golf world for almost pulling some star players to another tour that would compete with the PGA and European Tours.