Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Shutterstock
After Phil Mickelson was accused of looking for to wager on the result of the 2012 Ryder Cup, fellow golfer Rory McIlroy has weighed in.
“No less than he can wager on the Ryder Cup this 12 months as a result of he gained’t be part of it,” McIlroy, 34, quipped to ESPN reporters on Thursday, August 10, after finishing his first spherical on the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
McIlroy, for his half, certified to affix the European cohort at this 12 months’s Ryder Cup in September. Mickelson, 53, didn’t make the lower on the American group.
Mickelson made headlines on Thursday after infamous sports activities gambler Billy Walters claimed that the pair have been betting companions for 5 years.
“Phil favored to gamble as a lot as anybody I’ve ever met. Frankly, given Phil’s annual revenue and internet value on the time, I had no issues together with his betting,” Walters, 77, alleged in his upcoming memoir, Gambler: Secrets and techniques from a Life at Threat, which was excerpted by The Hearth Pit Collective. “And nonetheless don’t. He’s a big-time gambler, and big-time gamblers make massive bets. It’s his cash to spend how he needs.”
Walters — who claimed that Mickelson has gambled greater than $1 billion during the last three many years and misplaced $100 million — additional detailed one specific wager that nervous him.
“In late September 2012, Phil referred to as me from Medinah Nation Membership simply outdoors Chicago, website of the thirty ninth Ryder Cup matches between the USA and Europe. He was feeling supremely assured that the American squad led by Tiger Woods, Bubba Watson, and Phil himself was about to reclaim the Cup from the Euros,” Walters wrote. “He was so assured that he requested me to position a $400,000 wager for him on the U.S. group to win. I couldn’t imagine what I used to be listening to.”
Walters allegedly informed Mickelson that he “misplaced [his] f—king thoughts” over the wager, since former Cincinnati Reds supervisor Pete Rose had been banned from baseball for betting on his personal group. Walters then claimed that he needed “no half” in such a wager, noting he has “no thought” if Mickelson positioned the wager elsewhere. (The U.S. group in the end misplaced the match to the European athletes by one level.)
Mickelson, nevertheless, has since denied the accusations. “I by no means wager on the Ryder Cup,” he mentioned in a press release to Golf Digest. “Whereas it’s well-known that I all the time get pleasure from a pleasant wager on the course, I’d by no means undermine the integrity of the sport.”
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Mickelson continued: “I’ve additionally been very open about my playing habit. I’ve beforehand conveyed my regret, took accountability, have gotten assist, have been absolutely dedicated to remedy that has positively impacted me and I be ok with the place I’m now.”
