Phil Mickelson
Net worth pre-LIV: $400 million Total PGA Tour winnings: $95 million LIV deal: $200 million
Despite labeling his Saudi paymasters “scary muthaf-kers,” Phil Mickelson still signed up with LIV in the biggest deal yet seen in the breakaway competition.
It’s some payday for the 52-year-old, especially as he’s a shadow of the player he once was.
But it will certainly keep him in the lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed.
From Bentley Continentals to Aston Martins, Mickelson has long loved the finer things in life — he even owned a $40 million Gulfstream V jet, before selling it in 2019.
But it’s his more left-field purchases that give a better insight into what he does with his millions. Not only does Mickelson — who lost his endorsements with the likes of Workday, KPMG, Heineken and Callaway in the wake of his comments about Saudi Arabia — own a piece of a meteorite that crashed in Argentina in the 1930s but he also has a skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex, calling it “the coolest thing I’ve ever gotten.”
He and wife, Amy, and their three children live in a $7 million mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., but will soon be moving into a house Mickelson is having built in Jupiter Island, Fla., where his neighbors will include Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Dustin Johnson.
But there may be another reason for Mickelson’s money grab.
In a new biography of the player, “Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf ’s Most Colorful Superstar,” author Alan Shipnuck reveals that the golfer gambled away an estimated $40 million between 2010 and 2014.
“Mickelson’s love of gambling is fundamental to understanding his style of play as a golfer,” he writes. “It might also explain the Saudi seduction.”