Phil Mickelson HATES Tiger Woods.. Here’s Why
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Tiger Woods has been in the media a lot
lately due to his criticisms of live
golf not only that but he’s also been
taking shots at the League’s members
like mikkelson and of course the boss
Greg Norman but Phil mikkelson isn’t
having none of that as he wasted no time
in responding to Woods comments in
today’s video we’re going to talk about
mikkelson’s defense of his organization
and more so keep watching first up
mikkelson Tweets in response to Woods’s
comments just when we thought the feud
between live golf and the PGA Tour was
settling down someone had to come out
and reignite the Flames of course that’s
someone we’re talking about is none
other than Tiger Woods himself the 15
time major winner has been on a hot
Street lately appearing in front of the
press and making comments that honestly
just spark more controversy what’s even
more surprising though is the fact that
the majority of these comments come from
a single Press Conference during his
Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas Now
the headline making statement was
obviously about Greg Norman’s position
at Liv golf as according to Woods he
really needs to step down for peace to
Prevail between the PGA Tour and the
Saudi League we get why that one caught
everyone’s attention a comment that went
rather unnoticed however was when Woods
was asked about Phil mikkelson’s move to
live the reporter referred to the fact
that the tour is now bringing in its big
money elevated events in response to the
Breakaway League something that was a
sticking point for melson before he left
so Woods was asked if the tour owes
Lefty an apology now to which he said
absolutely not of course most people
would think of this as a normal
statement but it looks like mikkelson
really took it to heart as merely hours
after the press conference he logged
straight onto Twitter to fire some shots
back at the 46-year-old and hit him with
some cold hard facts up next mikkelson
says the PGA Tour money claims are fake
news now Woods’s comments about
mikkelson were actually followed by an
explanation and during that explanation
the golfing Legend claims that the tour
had to take out an enormous loan during
the pandemic because it was really
struggling to make ends meet what’s more
had the pandemic been extended for
another year then the association would
have literally run out of money the
situation was that dire obviously
everything’s worked out in the end as
the situation got better pretty quickly
as a result they basically have some
extra cash now that they’re using to
fund these elevated events meaning that
this couldn’t have been done during
mikkelson’s time on the tour and to be
fair multiple people have spoken up
about the pga’s financial problems over
the past couple of years the Liv star
however doesn’t believe these claims one
bit as according to him the tour has had
enough cash to fund everything for years
now not to mention he has said this
before too that the association is
sitting on $800 million an amount it
refuses to spend so after hearing woods’
comments Mickelson couldn’t help but hop
on to Twitter to double down on his
stance in reply to a tweet quoting him
and woods he essentially posted the
tour’s IRS 990 tax form from 2018
detailing all of his assets stocks and
reserves and honestly it does say 700
million in cash and over a billion
dollar in non-liquid assets what’s more
Lefty even clarified that this was from
the nonprofit section and that this
information is just a simple Google
search away coming up are Mickelson’s
figures accurate it’s easy to Google
something and post it on the internet
without fact checking besides even if
something is true does that inherently
make it accurate okay maybe that sounds
a bit too philosophical and we’ll have
to call up our boy Aristotle to answer
the point is that the IRS figures don’t
show the full picture as looking at
someone’s assets or reserves doesn’t
tell you if they’ve got liabilities as
well also to really get the full picture
you need the added context of complete
financial statements and apparently
there are a lot of nuances when it comes
to the tour’s records for starters the
association itself issued a statement
clarifying that it didn’t take out a
loan to deal with the pandemic that said
it did use its reserves and quote
unquote mitigating actions to deal with
the crisis so according to them Woods
was referring to the fact that their
reserves would have dipped before $100
million if golf hadn’t returned in 2020
after that however golf news Nets Ryan
baling decided to put the matter to rest
and post the entire PGA Tour balance
sheet for 2020 and in that it can be
clearly seen that they do have $1.6
billion in liabilities through their
retirement program not to mention their
loans and notes receivable line also
went up by by almost $240 million in
2020 which is a massive jump for a
single year so perhaps wood did have a
point about their financial troubles
moving on why would the tour owe
mikkelson an apology all right so this
drama didn’t stem out of nowhere and
actually has been brewing up for quite
some time now and that’s why to really
get why Woods was even asked about
melson during his press conference we
have to go back and contextualize
everything now as we mentioned earlier
the reporter’s question was about
whether the PGA tour owes Mickelson an
apology or not wait a second though why
would the association owe Lefty an
apology like sure for the fact that
they’ve suspended his membership for
defecting to live golf that one makes
sense but for coming up with elevated
events how does that connect to the
52-year-old well it all started a few
years ago when mikkelson spoke up
against the tour regarding his
compensation according to him the PGA
Tour was being unfair for not giving its
athletes medor rights on top of that
they were also taking major chunks of
cash just for exhibition matches for
instance if someone wanted to take part
in the match they’d have to pay a
million dollar so all of these things
combined with the fact that the
association didn’t nearly pay its
winners as much money as it earned was a
massive issue for melson that’s
literally where the $800 million quote
comes from as well cuz according to the
six-time major winner they could easily
afford to spend more on their athletes
hence in a way the PGA Tour is proving
them right by introducing these new Big
Money events and player IMPACT Program
now which is why people think the
association owes him an apology not to
mention the tour spending has been a
point of contention Mickelson isn’t the
only person who is pointed toward the
tour spending habits as an issue as a
matter of fact this is one of the
biggest talking points of the whole PGA
Tour verse live golf debate as well
those on the Saudi League side for
example think that the tour is supposed
to be a nonprofit organization that
distributes extra money to charity that
being said they still have a ton of cash
on hand which makes you question their
actual motives as a matter of fact some
people have even accused the association
of lobbying and using its money to run
propaganda against the Breakaway league
and let’s be fair they do have a lot of
influence over the political
establishment plus a lot of media
Outlets have also been known to favor
the tour a lot more than any neutral
would Patrick Reed is a great example of
this as according to him the p GA has
paid journalists to run a smear campaign
against him not to mention he’s gone as
far as to sue all these entities for
damaging his reputation so yeah there
are a lot of question marks looming over
the tour spending habits then again you
can’t say that live golf doesn’t do the
same thing cuz to be fair money is their
superpower and they’ve been exploiting
it pretty generously as well finally
Phil wasn’t the only person that woulds
criticize yep in the press conference
the 15-time major winner also talked
about how Greg Norman needs to resign
from Liv golf if the world wants peace
between the Saudi league and the PGA
tour of course he’s not the first person
to say these things as Rory mroy also
asked Norman to step down from his role
as according to him the Liv Chief was
way too immature to handle any serious
truce talks oh and then there’s the
issue of the lawsuits as well
unfortunately for the PGA Tour members
however it doesn’t look like the
Australian Legend is going anywhere as
he was once again front and center in a
new golf press release and in that
Norman announced four of the 14
destinations for its 2023 League
schedule what’s more he also mentioned
how it circuits truly a global League
that’s dedicated to expanding the sport
so yeah he’s still making moves over
there and we don’t think anyone’s going
to replace him anytime soon that’s a
wrap for this video do you think there’s
anything fishy about the PGA Tour
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