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As an American golfer, Phil Mickelson has a fortune estimated at $300 million. As a golfer, he is one of only a few players in history to have won three of the four major championships. Phil Mickelson has earned more than $800 million in his professional career thus far. He’s made between $80 million and $100 million in various years. In recent years, he has made between $40 and $50 million from endorsements, which is the bulk of his income.
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Phil Mickelson
| Net Worth: | $300 Million |
| Salary: | $50 Million Per Year |
| Date of Birth: | Jun 16, 1970 (51 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Profession: | Golfer, Athlete, Author |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
In this writing, he has raked in more than $100 million in tournament winnings, all of which came from tournaments. Only Tiger Woods has achieved more in his career.
Early Life
June 16, 1970, is the date Philip Alfred Mickelson was born in San Diego, California. A former airline pilot and navy aviator, Philip Mickelson grew up in a family of accomplished aviators. A native of San Diego, Arizona, Mickelson grew up in the area. His father taught him how to play golf, and he took after him. He has a left-handed swing, despite being right-handed in everyday life, because of this. When he graduated from high school in 1988, he was a student at the University of San Diego.
Career Beginnings
A full golf scholarship to Arizona State University allowed Mickelson to compete at the university level right away, and he was an immediate success. Three NCAA individual championships, and three Haskins Awards for being named the Outstanding College Golfer of the Year in the 1990s, 1991s, and 1992s, were all his. After winning 16 events throughout his college career, Mickelson became only the second college golfer in history to earn All-American honors four years in a row. In June 1992, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan.
Phil Mickelson’s net worth is $400 million and he could not care less how your upcoming work week goes.
— Denlesks (@Denlesks) May 23, 2021
Professional Career
On and off the golf course, Mickelson has had a great deal of success. In 1991, while still an amateur, he captured his first PGA Tour title at the Northern Telecom Open. Following graduating from college, he went straight into professional golf after being exempted from qualification by his victory in the 1991 Tucson Open. From 1999 through 2003, he finished in the top ten in 17 of the tournaments, with six-second or third-place results. When he won his first major title in 2004, he had already been on the PGA circuit for 13 years. The CareerBuilder Challenge was Mickelson’s first tournament since undergoing two sports hernia surgeries, but he returned victorious with a T-21 finish in 2016. He earned his 44th PGA Tour title in 2019 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. At the age of 48, he was the event’s oldest winner. His absence from the Waste Management Phoenix Open, which he had attended every year since 1989, was revealed in December of this year. At the Saudi Arabian event, which will take place in February 2020, he finished third.
There have been many victories on the PGA Tour throughout his career, including four major championships, including four majors. Since then, he’s become one of the world’s best and most popular golfers.
Endorsements and Earnings
He has won more than $100 million in tournaments during his career. His total career earnings have surpassed $1 billion as of the time of this writing. There’s also the $200 million he made in June 2022 from the Saudi-backed LIV league, which we’ll talk about below.
Every year, he earns between $40 and $50 million, the majority of which comes from endorsements and the rest from salary and tournament winnings. Mickelson has earned $87 million in tournament prizes, making him the second-highest-earning golfer of all-time behind Tiger Woods. Until 2015, he ranked behind Vijay Singh ($70 million) as the second-highest earner in tournament earnings.
KPMG, ExxonMobil, Titleist, Ford, Enbrel, Callaway, Amgen, Grayhawk, Rolex, and Intrepid Financial Partners are Mickelson’s most prominent sponsors. In 2010, he began advocating Enbrel after receiving treatment for psoriatic arthritis with this medicine. His 15-year endorsement deal with Barclays came to an end in 2016 when the bank dropped him. An insider trading action against him was also brought by the SEC at the same time. He was not indicted for any wrongdoing. A total of $40 million was earned by Phil Mickelson in salary and endorsements between June 2017 and June 2018. Between June 2018 and June 2019, he made almost $50 million. Additionally, he was awarded $9 million in prize money for defeating Tiger Woods in a head-on showdown in 2009.
Saudi League Controversy and Payday
In February of 2022, Phil was embroiled in a tiff over the LIV Saudi Golf League. It was mentioned in an interview that Phil was concerned about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record while still agreeing that the new league represented an excellent commercial possibility above that of the PGA. As a result of the interview, Phil lost KPMG as a long-term sponsor.
The organizers of LIV, on the other hand, appear to have been unfazed by the comments. Phil secured a $200 million deal to join the LIV league in June 2022, according to reports.
Personal Life
A year after they were married, Mickelson announced his divorce from his first wife Amy. They are parents to three children: Amanda Brynn (born in June 1999), Evan Samuel (born in March 2003), and Sophia Isabel (born in July 2005). (October 2001).
Real Estate
In 1999, Phil and Amy purchased a La Jolla, California, property for $1.65 million. $2.745 million was paid by the previous owners for this property in 2012.
Rancho Santa Fe, California, was Phil and his family’s home for many years. Approximately six million dollars was spent in 2001 on a 4.55-acre plot of land there. In 2008, they put it on the market for a whopping $12.2 million. In January 2015, they agreed to pay $5.725 million.
Phil purchased an undeveloped lot in Jupiter, Florida, in January 2020 for an undisclosed sum. Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan will be among his neighbors.
Mickelson Private Golf
Phil and a group of investors own roughly six golf courses in Arizona aside from their residences. For an annual charge, you may purchase a private membership here.
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