Stern tees off on Phil

Rips golfers for ‘selling out’ to Saudis

Howard Stern condemned Phil Mickelson and other golf pros who took part in the Saudi-backed LIV Tour for “selling out” to “real pieces of s--t.”

Mickelson, who joined the LIV Tour for a reported $200 million, has become the face of a public relations nightmare triggered by the exodus of top golfers from the PGA Tour to the new startup league backed by a Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

Mickelson and nearly two dozen other golfers have been suspended by the PGA Tour as a result of their decision to join the startup.

“They’re selling out,” Stern said of Mickelson and other golfers on his SiriusXM show.

Stern, whose comments Monday were compiled by the online news site Mediaite, blasted Saudi Arabia for acquiring highpriced athletes for its events in hopes of improving its image.

“They’re real pieces of s--t and they got a lot of money so it allows them to be pieces of s--t on a big level,” Stern said. “Normally, if they didn’t have oil there, you wouldn’t hear from these guys, you’d never know what they believe, they’d be talking to a sheep and a camel.”

Stern added: “But they, unfortunately, have so much money that they can spread their diseased brain power all over the world and now they wanna start a golf tournament, not a tournament, a league.”

Top golfers such as Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau agreed to take part in the first-ever LIV Tour event last week despite harsh criticism from the families of those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

On his show, Stern played audio of a recent Mickelson news conference in which he appeared on the defensive.

“I don’t condone humanrights violations. I don’t know how I can be any more clear,” Mickelson said.

“But I’ll put up with it for $200 million,” Stern chimed in.