Phil Mickelson has opened up about his “reckless and embarrassing” gambling behaviors, which he suggests he has kicked.
As The Post’s Mark Cannizzaro initial reported, Mickelson signed up to participate in in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf collection, which launches this week in a event outside the house London. The offer is worthy of $200 million, according to Golfing Channel.
Mickelson did an interview with Sports activities Illustrated’s Bob Harig, who asked him if he made this go because of to “financial challenges.”
“My gambling bought to a point of currently being reckless and embarrassing. I had to address it. And I’ve been addressing it for a amount of decades. And for hundreds of hours of remedy. I experience good the place I’m at there. My household and I are and have been fiscally safe for some time,” Mickelson answered.
“Gambling has been aspect of my daily life at any time given that I can recall. But about a 10 years ago is when I would say it turned reckless. It is uncomfortable. I really don't like that persons know. The point is I have been dealing with it for some time. Amy has been pretty supportive of it and with me and the system. We’re at a put following several a long time where by I sense snug with wherever that is. It isn’t a threat to me or my economic protection. It was just a number of inadequate choices.’’
Harig followed up with Mickelson, inquiring him if this signifies he’s stopped gambling on golf apply rounds. In a roundabout way, Mickelson answered that he has not.
“On the golfing training course, it’s building levels of competition,” Mickelson reported. “But it is the stress and anxiety, the other items that arrive across with gambling off the system and habit off the training course that I definitely needed to handle.’’
Mickelson’s biographer, Alan Shipnuck, documented that the golfer shed a staggering $40 million in a four-calendar year stretch involving 2010 and 2014.
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