ORLANDO – Two Sundays ago after his final round in the Genesis Invitational north of Los Angeles, Rory McIlroy said Phil Mickelson’s alarming comments concerning the PGA Tour and the proposed breakaway, Saudi Arabia-backed golf league were “naïve, selfish, egotistical, ignorant.”
On Wednesday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, McIlroy said Mickelson, who is immersed in controversy and has lost sponsors and stepped away from the game, should be forgiven.
“I think Phil has been a wonderful ambassador for the game of golf, still is a wonderful ambassador for the game of golf,” McIlroy said. “It’s unfortunate that a few comments that he thought he was making in confidence or off the record got out there. This whole situation is unfortunate.
