Phil Mickelson And His Greed Comments Are One Big Joke

Before we start pouring hot tar and feathers over Phil Mickelson, let’s remind ourselves of a few things.

First, Phil, aka Lefty, has made north of $100 million playing and winning on the PGA Tour and after 31 years of collecting all sorts of big endorsement dollars, Lefty’s net worth is estimate to be somewhere in the $700-$800 million range.

Apparently that’s simply not enough.  Lefty launched a tirade last week against the PGA Tour, referring to the sports organization that made him hundreds of millions of dollars as “obnoxiously greedy.”

And now’s a good time to look back on the great movie — Wall Street (which came out about five years before Phil turned pro) — where lowly broker Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) admonished fat-cat Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas) with these lines:

“How many yachts can you water-ski behind?  How much is enough, Gordon?”

Apparently, Mickelson is feeling the sting of not being a billionaire like his long-time rival Tiger Woods.

Mickelson’s beef with the Tour is that it holds and controls media rights for the players.  It’s something that’s been there since 1972, 20 years before Mickelson joined the Tour.  And Mickelson, who wants people to know he’s the smartest guy in the room — hopefully knew about that when he signed up for a life that would take him all over the world in private jets and make him fabulously wealthy.

Obnoxious greed?

Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black?

Phil’s bitching, pissing and moaning about those media rights, citing that the Tour owned the rights when Lefty beat Tiger in that first Vegas go-round and Lefty didn’t.

So why didn’t Phil start bitching about this sooner?

Well the simple answer is that he’s trying his best to stay relevant at age 51.  Lefty finished a lowly 30th at the Tournament of Champions to start his 2022.  He then proceeded to miss the cut at the American Express and The Farmers.  To his credit, Lefty did manage a tie for 18th in Saudi Arabia, where he was no doubt paid seven figures just to show up.  You know, jet fuel is expensive.

Lefty started this bitch-session of his over there in The Kingdom.  Good thing he wasn’t bitching about the “Regime” over there or he might have vanished without a trace.

No, Mickelson has been one of those who says he’s “intrigued” by this proposed golf league that has yet to sign one single, solitary player.

Getting back to Lefty and the “greedy” PGA Tour, well, Mickelson has a short memory.  The Tour chose to look the other way when Left got himself in some hot water with a gambling debt of nearly $2 million to the notorious William T. Walters, known to Phil and friends as “Billy.”

Lefty ended up making a series of stock trades based on insider-info on Dean Foods from Billy, who could be described as a Bookie To The Stars, Mickelson included.  The Feds used transcripts t from a business management firm, most likely Mickelson’s, that if called to testify, would have shown its records and a transfer of $1,950,000 to Mickelson.”

The Tour could have justly suspended Mickelson but chose to look the other way.

In the end, Billy did time in a white collar prison and Lefty went on, doing what he does — making millions.

The Mickelson tirade, well, it got that attention of everyone, including one Brooks Koepka.

“Don’t know if I’d use the word greedy if I was Phil,” Koepka wrote on his social media accounts.

Don’t believe there’s much sympathy for Mickelson when it comes to money.

He’s got so much of it yet apparently it’s not enough.

Suggestion here is that Lefty go ahead and become the first guy to sign with this proposed Saudi-backed league.

That way, he can get banned from the Tour and basically become a man without a country.

He can pack that jet and fly around Asia, because right now, it’s the only region of the world where Saudi Golf can dwell, aside from there in The Kingdom where no one gives a rat’s ass about golf.

That was evident from the ghosts on the course at Royal Greens last week.  Why have gallery ropes when there’s no gallery?

Perhaps the Saudis should have paid “appearance fees” to spectators.

As for Mickelson — your next speech needs to harken to Gordan Gekko’s shining moment in Wall Street when he appropriately declared:

“Greed is good.”