{"id":1505754,"date":"2022-06-06T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505754"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:05:42","slug":"saudi-golf-tour-reaches-deal-with-mickelson-after-landing-dustin-johnson-for-125m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-golf-tour-reaches-deal-with-mickelson-after-landing-dustin-johnson-for-125m\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Golf Tour Reaches Deal With Mickelson After Landing Dustin Johnson For $125M"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsaudi-golf-tour-reaches-deal-with-mickelson-after-landing-dustin-johnson-for-125m%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Golf great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/golf-great-phil-mickelson-lost-obscene-amount-of-money-gambling-says-new-book\">Phil Mickelson<\/a>\u00a0ended four months of speculation by announcing he will play in an upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/saudi-arabia\">Saudi-sponsored<\/a> series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/golf\">golf tournaments<\/a> for what is almost certainly a nine-figure payday \u2014 and the end of his PGA career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/golf-great-phil-mickelson-lost-obscene-amount-of-money-gambling-says-new-book\">Mickelson<\/a>\u00a0said Monday he will tee off in the Kingdom\u2019s LIV Golf series later this week after not playing for four months and delaying with a barrage of bad publicity. The move wasn\u2019t completely unexpected, as Mickelson had wavered back and forth\u00a0since playing Feb. 6 in the Saudi International. But it gives the petro-funded upstart tour huge star power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cI am ready to come back to play the game I love but after 32 years this new path is a fresh start, one that is exciting for me at this stage of my career,\u201d Mickelson wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Phil Mickelson, a chief recruiter for a Saudi-funded rival league to the PGA Tour, is ending his four-month hiatus from competitive golf by adding his name to the 48-man field for the LIV Golf Invitational that starts Friday outside London. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JkFHrTM3ho\">https:\/\/t.co\/JkFHrTM3ho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1533908772762034176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The defection likely brings Mickelson\u2019s career on the PGA Tour to an end, as he would face suspension for violating tour regulations by playing overseas without a release. The PGA Tour denied releases to all 14 members who have signed up for the rival series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">It\u2019s a coup for golf legend Greg Norman, who has been the chief architect of the Kingdom\u2019s answer to the PGA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhil Mickelson is unequivocally one of the greatest golfers of this generation,\u2019\u2019 Norman said. \u201cHis contributions to the sport and connection to fans around the globe cannot be overstated and we are grateful to have him. He strengthens an exciting field for London where we\u2019re proud to launch a new era for golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf last week announced a 48-player field for its first event,\u00a0a 54-hole tournament June 9-11 at Centurion Golf Club near London with $25 million in prize money and $4 million going to the individual winner.\u00a0American Dustin Johnson was the biggest name on that list, but with Mickelson in the fold, the Saudi tour has a trophy to tee off. It was not known how much Mickelson is being paid, but Johnson reportedly got a $125 million \u201csigning fee\u201d to play in a series of LIV Golf tournaments and Mickelson is assuredly receiving at least as much.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks after Mickelson played in the Saudi tournament in February, excerpts from a coming unauthorized biography quoted him referring to Saudi Arabia\u2019s human rights atrocities, including the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The quotes likely caused some awkwardness with the Saudi tour\u2019s officials and may have led to months of dithering by Mickelson.<\/p>\n<p>The book, \u201cPhil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf\u2019s Most Colorful Superstar,\u201d by Alan Shipnuck, also alleges Mickelson\u00a0racked up a stunning $40 million in gambling losses from 2010-14, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/golf-great-phil-mickelson-lost-obscene-amount-of-money-gambling-says-new-book\">according to excerpts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson, known to fans as \u201cLefty,\u201d\u00a0has won 45 PGA tour events, including\u00a0three Masters, two PGA championships and one Open. Last year\u2019s PGA victory made\u00a0Mickelson the oldest golfer to ever win a major championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf great Phil Mickelson\u00a0ended four months of speculation by announcing he will play in an upcoming Saudi-sponsored series of golf tournaments for what is almost certainly a nine-figure payday \u2014 and the end of his PGA career. Mickelson\u00a0said Monday he will tee off in the Kingdom\u2019s LIV Golf series later this week after not playing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1505811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}