“This was a Failed Coup.” Inside Phil Mickelson’s Exile from Golf

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The 2022 Masters Tournament tees off Thursday, but it will be without at least one of golf’s all-time greats: Phil Mickelson, who has won three times at Augusta and in 2021 became the oldest major champion ever by winning the PGA Championship at the age of 50. Mark Schlabach shares the stunning story of how Mickelson flirted with joining a breakaway golf league funded by the Saudi Arabian government, and in the process took aim at the PGA itself. It’s a saga that has made Mickelson a persona non grata in the golf world, essentially an exile from golf, and uncertain future on the PGA tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.4	Here it is.
0:13.9	Biggest moment of a legendary career.
0:16.7	Bell to Feats, Father Time.
0:23.1	That was just 10 months ago.
0:25.1	At the 2021 PGA Championship, when Phil Mikkelsen became the oldest major winner in the history
0:30.9	of golf at age 50.
0:33.8	An unprecedented trajectory that should have carried him to Augusta, Georgia, where the
0:39.0	masters are underway this week.
0:43.4	But Phil Mikkelsen is not playing in his favorite tournament.
0:47.1	In fact, Phil hasn't been seen on the PGA tour at all in months, and nobody's sure
0:53.4	when they'll see him again.
0:56.4	So today, as Augusta prays for the return of Tiger Woods, Mark Schlabeh reports the story
1:02.8	of his rival, the legend in exile, the man who isn't there.
1:07.8	Because Phil Mikkelsen cozyed up to an authoritarian government and tried to overthrow the PGA itself.
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