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Andrew Wright

LIV Golf Stars Make Forbes List Of World's 10 Highest-Paid Athletes

Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson during The Masters

Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson have been named on the Forbes list of the world's top 10 highest-paid athletes for 2023. 

The pair accepted lucrative offers in 2022 to join LIV Golf, the breakaway circuit spearheaded by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. Mickelson's signing-on fee was reported to be around $200 million, while Johnson is believed to have received somewhere in the region of $125m to defect to the upstart tour that has caused a rift in the men's game.

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