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Alan Shipnuck Details How Phil Mickelson Made His Millions And One Tax Gaffe

Biographer Alan Shipnuck said Mickelson “was making almost a hundred million dollars a year,” thanks to blue-chip financial sponsors who paid big money for golf outings where he memorized binders on clients. Shipnuck recalled Mickelson’s California tax outburst, when a tour official warned, “Nobody wants to hear a guy making forty million complain,” and Mickelson snapped back, “It’s fifty.”