'To participate and bring LIV Golf to Tucson is exciting for me and everybody else involved with LIV,' said Phil Mickelson, who is among the top names in golf's newest professional league.
Justin Spears Editor's note: While acknowledging the controversy surrounding LIV Golf, the Star has decided to cover its tournament in Tucson as a sporting event.Mickelson previously owned the exclusive Stone Canyon Golf Club, which hosted the “The Match,” a made-for-TV event in 2021. From 2007-2011, Mickelson competed in WGC Match Play at Dove Mountain, before the tournament uprooted and moved to San Francisco and now Austin, Texas.
“I really do enjoy the state of Arizona, but also Tucson has been a great place for me,” said Mickelson, a former Arizona State Sun Devil. “It's where I won my first professional event in 1991 as an amateur, and I have fond memories of coming back here. To participate and bring LIV Golf to Tucson is exciting for me and everybody else involved with LIV.
When LIV Golf — which pays its players noticeably more than the PGA Tour, with fewer tournaments — started holding events last summer, Woods, who was offered nearly $1 billion to move from the PGA Tour to LIV, said players making the jump “turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position.”
“We know they killed Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights,” Mickelson said. “They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.” “It's another thing that I think everybody is grateful for, because again, we were told LIV won't ever get the top players,” he said. “And gosh, we have so many top players in the world that it's a quality product, and it's something that we are all grateful for.”
“I don't know what that reaction's going to be,” Woods said in February. “I know that some of our friendships have certainly taken a different path, but we'll see when all that transpires.”“We are grateful to just be able to play and compete and be a part of it,” Mickelson said. “A lot of the people there that are playing and competing in the Masters are friends for decades, and I'm looking forward to seeing them again.
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