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Mickelson biographer: Phil lost $40M gambling from 2010-14

Phil Mickelson reported gambling losses of more than $40 million from 2010-14, the author of an unauthorized biography on the golfer claims.

Author Alan Shipnuck's upcoming Mickelson book was the source of controversial remarks Mickelson made about Saudi financiers backing a rival golf circuit. Shipnuck released another excerpt adapted from the biography on the Fire Pit Collective website Thursday.

Shipnuck wrote that the number was uncovered by auditors during an insider trading investigation that Mickelson was involved in 2016.

“Mickelson's love of gambling is fundamental to understanding his style of play as a golfer. It might also explain the Saudi seduction,” Shipnuck wrote. “Based on his comments to me, he clearly enjoyed the idea of sticking it to the Tour, but the real motivation was plainly the funny money being offered by the Saudis. Why was Phil so eager to cash in, at the risk of alienating so many fans and endorsement partners?

He then connected Mickelson's constant pursuit of money to his gambling issues. The author noted that Mickelson's earning power at that point of his career helped him rake in an estimated $40 million a year.

Mickelson received backlash for his remarks to Shipnuck admitting that the Saudis were “scary (expletives)” to deal with due to the nation's poor human rights record. He issued a lengthy mea culpa and retreated from the public eye, skipping the Masters.

Since then, Mickelson's representatives announced that the six-time major winner has registered for the PGA Championship (where he would be the defending champ) and U.S. Open, along with applying for a waiver to enter the first event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. His reps added that he has not made up his mind regarding any schedule plans or events.

Shipnuck discussed the backlash in Thursday's update.

“In the wake of the Saudi revelations, called Mickelson “naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant.” If he was only those things, I would have had zero interest in spending nearly two years working on a book about the guy,” he wrote. “But Phil can also be generous, thoughtful, caring, empathetic, charming and a heckuva lot of fun. It is the multitudes within Mickelson that make him so fascinating.”

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