A forthcoming book alleges that Mickelson bet over $1 billion on football, basketball and baseball games
Golf legend Phil Mickelson gambled more than $1 billion on football, basketball and baseball over the last three decades, a forthcoming book claims.
Professional gambler and Las Vegas businessman Billy Walters alleges in a book due out on Aug. 22, “Gambler: Secrets from a Life of Risk,” that Mickelson placed hundreds of bets with him for exactly $220,000 and 1,115 bets for precisely $110,000 over the span of three decades. What’s more, Walters estimates that Mickelson lost more than $100 million on his bets during the last three decades. That’s according to excerpts of the book reported by The FirePit Collective.
According to Walters, Mickelson asked Walters to place a bet on his behalf on the Ryder Cup in 2012. Mickelson, who was playing in the Ryder Cup, asked Walters to place a $400,000 bet on the U.S. team to win, something that Walters said he declined. PGA Tour players are prohibited from wagering on events under the organization’s Integrity Program.
Mickelson has a documented history of sports gambling. Court filings showed that Mickelson transferred roughly $3 million to an “illegal gambling operation” in 2015, and in 2007 the Detroit News reported that Mickelson had ties to an alleged mob bookie.In an interview with Sports Illustrated last year, Mickelson was asked about speculation he was having financial troubles. “My gambling got to a point of being reckless and embarrassing. I had to address it,” Mickelson said.
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