BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — The Missing Man isn't quite the story this week that it was last week.
But Phil Mickelson's continued absence from the golfing world — he didn't defend his PGA Championship at Southern Hills, and he's not playing the Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores in western Michigan, and there's no telling when or if he'll be back — remains tough to ignore.
Mickelson hasn't played a competitive golf tournament since early February, when excerpts from an explosive biography on Lefty were dropped, in which he sympathized with the new Saudi Arabia-backed golf tour, dismissing the Saudis' human-rights atrocities — specifically, the murder of a Washington Post journalist and the killing of gays — while also accusing of greed on the PGA Tour which has lined Mickelson's pockets to the tune of nearly $100 million over his three decades as a pro.
