... is Phil Mickelson backing up, fast, after he said he wanted to climb in bed with a bunch of sociopaths to put pressure on the PGA Tour to reform itself.
Namely, to stop making so damn much money off the players, who make a whole lot of damn money themselves.
Anyway, since air hit that quote the other day, some stuff has happened, and it's all been bad for Lefty. Thinking he was leading some sort of charge, he was undoubtedly quite shocked to look behind him and see no one following. PGA Tour player after PGA Tour player said he had zero interest in the Super Tour. This included all of the top 12 players in the world.
Meanwhile, the PGA Tour yesterday issued a bald ultimatum: The Tour was moving forward without regard for the Super Tour, and it was time for the players to make a decision: With us, or against us?
And, well ...
Well. Suddenly Lefty was out there on an island, all by himself. Alone, that is, except for Greg Norman, who's fronting the Super Tour for the journalist-killing-and-dismembering Saudis.
Not a very hospitable island, in other words. And so Phil walked back what he said about the Saudis -- whom he'd actually acknowledged were a bunch of sociopaths, which made it sound even worse when he said he was nonetheless casting his lot with them.
No more. This week Mickelson threw himself on the mercy of the court of public opinion, saying it was rilly, rilly bad what he said, and how he wasn't going to join the Super Tour after all. In fact, he's apparently taking some time off from golf.
Norman, however, is still fully engaged with the butchers of Jamal Khashoggi.
Sleep well, Greg.
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