Phil Mickelson has insisted golf is “lucky” that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is investing in the sport.
Speaking ahead of this week’s LIV Golf event in Jeddah – the seventh and final regular event of the start-up tour’s inaugural season – the six-time major champion spoke up in support of the tour’s controversial bankrollers, aiming a broadside at the USA and UK in the process.
Asked if he was surprised that LIV has been able get off the ground, Mickelson said: “The game of golf is very lucky to have the PIF invest in the game. The sport of the game of golf is being influxed with billions of dollars now. And the ability to go global and make golf a truly global sport is really beneficial for the game.
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“Now the United States and the UK are not favourable to this. Everywhere outside of that around the world, LIV Golf is loved, and eventually
they will come around and they will be accepting of it. But everywhere else
in the world, the ability to move these tournaments throughout the world
— I’ve spoken with people that have had dealings that have not been
positive with the [PGA] Tour and have had nothing but positive experience
with LIV.
“It opens up opportunities to move professional golf throughout the world in other countries and grow the game internationally. Again, outside a few countries, the United States and the
UK, where it’s very negatively viewed currently, that has been
changing and evolving.
“In a few years, it will be not
only accepted but appreciated the involvement and the influx of capital
into this sport and what it’s doing.”
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