DALLAS — Unlike LIV Golf — which tees off Thursday outside London — most upstart leagues aren’t backed by the Saudi government, which murdered/dismembered a journalist and executes people because of their sexual orientation at will. Phil Mickelson’s words, by the way, not mine. The numbers back him up, though. Eighty-one executions on a single day in March. According to watchdog groups, some were killed for participating in human rights demonstrations.
Anyway, Lefty will tee off Thursday, suggesting he’s made amends with his new employers since his controversial remarks. Either that or he’s a light sleeper.
Besides Phil, the 48-man field at Centurion Club co-stars Dustin Johnson and then it’s a fairly steep drop-off to Louis Oosthuizen, Kevin Na, Talor Gooch, Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer, Charl Schwartzel, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter. Unless you’ve brushed up on your international golf, that sentence probably constitutes everyone you’d recognize this week.
