Phil Mickelson has made a career out being brazen.
Brazen enough to make ridiculous shots on the course, brazen enough to take anyone’s money who was offering. That money was on offer at least in part because fans wanted to see themselves as brazen as Phil. It all added up to nearly a billion dollars, although Mickelson was also brazen enough to lose millions of those dollars gambling with increasingly shady characters.
Plenty of golf journalists have suggested that his biggest gamble with his shadiest partner yet was, in part, to pay off all the bets he lost before, even after selling his $40 million private jet.
