It has now been a year since Phil Mickelson spectacularly tainted his legacy with an utterance that reverberated around golf.
Mickelson surrendered his competitive relevance when pledging to sign a mega-money contract for an emerging Saudi-Arabian-based breakaway tour just months after becoming the oldest major champion at Kiawah Island.
But his comments acknowledging the human right issues of the Kingdom bankrolling Greg Norman's insurgent LIV Golf venture will haunt him the most.