PGA’s Silence and Hypocrisy on Phil Mickelson’s Misdeeds Are Par for the Course

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Published: June 8, 2016

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A decade ago, Phil Mickelson made ripples among his brethren for suggesting that the PGA Tour was no place for a democracy to take root.

Instead, he espoused the benevolent dictator model, wherein one man is entrusted with the autonomy and authority to mete out punishment, manipulate policy and enforce the rules.

Or, in fact, do nothing at all.

"I don't think players should be involved in the tour," Mickelson told the San Francisco Chronicle's Ron Kroichick in 2006. "I think the commissioner should run the tour.”

Now we know why.

Two full seasons after an investigation into Mickelson's dealings with a known gambler—one of the more embarrassing episodes in years—initially came to the attention of PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, he’s seemingly taken the federal paperwork from the cases and tossed them in a deskside paper shredder.

“I'm just glad it's over,” Mickelson said last week before playing at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio. “It feels good that it's over and it's passed, and it's in the past. Ready to move on.”

Well, sort of. Five days after that statement, another spiked shoe dropped.

First a little background. After two years of inquiry, Mickelson last month was named in a federal civil suit involving the nation’s most-notorious sports gambler, high-stakes Las Vegas legend Billy Walters. The case involved an alphabet soup of investigatory agencies, including the FBI and SEC, yet the acronym known as the PGA did what it does best.

It kept as quiet as a greenside gallery at Augusta National, continuing its long history under Finchem of burying its collective head in the sand as it relates to bad news, player discipline or public discussions of black-eye episodes. The tour’s mealy-mouthed reaction was condemned by some as another in a series of predictably blind P....
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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