Phil Mickelson: Not a single player on LIV wants to play PGA Tour
- Doug Mattushek
- 31 July 2023
Phil Mickelson has made no bones about where his loyalties lie in golf's civil war.
Lefty won't be making his way back to the PGA Tour anytime soon...
While PGA Tour overlord Jay Monahan announcement of a surprise merger with LIV Golf effectively declared a ceasefire, the details of who gets what slice of pie are yet to be hashed out.
Last week, Monahan revealed the Player Benefit Program, which will seek to financially compensate the PGA Tour players who weren't lured by LIV Golf's riches. In addition - to avoid being divisive - Monahan revealed that there will even be a way for LIV players to return to the PGA Tour.
But Monahan's peace branch isn't being well received by all. In fact, in reaction to the Player Benefit Program, Mickelson took to Twitter to go on the offensive.
"What a colossal waste of time," tweeted the six-time major winner on Sunday.
"Not a single player on LIV wants to play PGA Tour. It would require a public apology and restitution to LIV players for paying millions to Clout media to disparage all of us.
"A better topic is future sanctions for the many players who now come to LIV."
The 'Clout media' Mickelson refers to is a public relations firm representing 9/11 victims in a lawsuit against LIV Golf and its Saudi Arabian bankrollers, the Public Investment Fund.
But after the merger was announced, Clout dropped the PGA Tour as a client. Nonetheless, some damage had been done to the LIV players' image.
