Early Reviews Are In And Phil's Obnoxious Greed Comments Going Over Like You'd Expect

Phil Mickelson’s “obnoxious greed” claims have not gone over well in a variety of ways, namely that he’s in Saudi Arabia collecting a hefty appearance fee from some pretty shady characters.

His comments were posted on Golf Digest’s Instagram account and earned this reply from Brooks Koepka:
DK if I’d be using the word greedy if I’m Phil…�””

The Daily Mail offered this headline to Derek Lawrenson’s story, which ran for some time on its home sports page.

After his opening 67 in the PIFSIPSIA, Mickelson was sort of asked about his comments to Golf Digest.

Q. There's a lot of buzz this week; is the sport itself the true nature, the competition, something to lose, to gain?

PHIL MICKELSON: You know, there's a lot of complexities that are working themselves out right now in the sport of golf. Because of some opportunities that create leverage for the players, we have a chance to get in a more equitable position with other major sports.

We're so far behind because we don't have player representation like the players Association and the collective bargaining and all those things, and we have such differing views, and for the first time in my 30 years there's some leverage. I don't know where we're headed, to answer your question. I don't know, because there's so many different parts that need to be addressed.

I think in the end, all the things are going to be very positive, but there's a lot going on, which is a good thing.

Oh, just tremendously good.