Phil Mickelson’s association with a proposed Saudi-back golf league is many things. A financial windfall, a power play, a move spurred by misguided vengeance. But if Thursday’s report from the Fire Pit Collective is true, he’s not so much an associate of the Super Golf League as he is an architect.
For the moment, the proposed Super Golf League remains just that, hearty in concept but short on substantive matter. What is clear is the PGA Tour’s stance towards the wannabe global tour, a position Commissioner Jay Monahan has not strayed from since the threat materialised two years ago: them, or us.
Here’s what few if any of the players competing in this week’s Saudi International want to discuss: the so-called Super Golf League that appears to be creeping ever closer to some sort of inauguration.
As ever when there is even a sniff of Saudi Arabia about the proceedings, what was unsaid by Greg Norman, CEO of LIV Golf Investments, and Cho Minn Thant, commissioner of the Asian Tour, was perhaps more illuminating than what was uttered out loud.
A 50-year-old man, who came into the week on a miserable run of results, won the PGA Championship on the longest golf course in Major-championship history.