LOS ANGELES: US federal auditors probing Phil Mickelson's role in an insider trading case found he had gambling losses of more than US$40 million from 2010 to 2014, according to an excerpt from Alan Shipnuck's forthcoming biography of the US golfer.
Mickelson has not played since an uproar in February followed Shipnuck's publication of the player's explosive remarks concerning the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour spearheaded by Greg Norman. Mickelson was a relief defendant in a 2016 criminal insider trading case that sent gambler Billy Walters to prison.In the excerpt posted Thursday, Shipnuck, citing a source with direct access to the documents, writes that government auditors working the case investigated Mickelson's finances over four years from 2010 to 2014.