Phil Mickelson continues to face the results of his controversial feedback concerning the PGA Tour and a proposed Saudi-backed breakaway league.
The six-time main champion misplaced two extra sponsors Friday — Callaway Golf and Workday.
Workday instructed Golf Digest early Friday that it was chopping ties with Mickelson, and Callaway later introduced its choice to pause its relationship with the 51-year-old Mickelson, changing into the fourth longtime companion to distance itself from him previously week.
Mickelson has loved a 17-year partnership with Callaway, and in 2017, they agreed to increase that partnership for the rest of his enjoying profession.
“Callaway doesn't condone Phil Mickelson’s feedback and we had been very disillusioned in his alternative of phrases — they under no circumstances replicate our values or what we stand for as an organization,” the corporate stated in a press release. “Phil has apologized and we all know he regrets how he dealt with latest occasions. We acknowledge his need to take time away from the sport and respect that call. At the moment we've agreed to pause our partnership & will reevaluate our ongoing relationship at a later date.”
Earlier this week, KPMG and Amstel Mild introduced the termination of their partnerships with Mickelson.
Golf author Alan Shipnuck, whose Mickelson biography is scheduled to return out in Might, revealed Mickelson’s feedback explaining his choice to companion with a Saudi-backed league that might rival the PGA Tour. In his clarification, Mickelson claimed the brand new league was essential — regardless of Saudi Arabia’s horrific human rights violations — with a view to reshape the golf panorama.
“They’re scary motherf—ers to become involved with,” Mickelson stated. “We all know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible document on human rights. They execute individuals over there for being homosexual. Realizing all of this, why would I even take into account it? As a result of this can be a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.”
Mickelson defined that the Tour strong-armed its contributors and restricted its golfers’ monetary incomes potential, accusing them of “obnoxious greed.” The Saudi league, he urged, would grant gamers extra freedom, energy and incomes potential.
Mickelson has since apologized for the feedback and accused Shipnuck of relating “off the document feedback being shared out of context and with out my consent.”
Amid the controversy, Mickelson has taken time away from golf.
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