AUGUSTA, Ga. — The thriller began in earnest final spring and lasted till autumn’s twilight. However Phil Mickelson — among the many most well-known frontmen for LIV Golf, the league bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — insists that he believed he could be allowed to play the 2023 Masters Match, which opens Thursday.
By no means thoughts any discomfort, or how on-course rivalries had reworked into long-distance furies tinged by politics, energy, pleasure and cash. No, Mickelson…
