{"id":543147,"date":"2025-11-02T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:07:20","slug":"golf-star-phil-mickelson-responds-to-slanderous-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543147\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf star Phil Mickelson responds to ‘slanderous’ allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Mickelson is once again facing serious questions over his money moves.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A bombshell report from financial outlet Hunterbrook has claimed the six-time major winner got inside information about an oil company deal and shared it with a private group of investors before the news went public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report, published on 31 October, alleges the 54-year-old passed on non-public details following a conversation with Sable Offshore chief executive Jim Flores.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They claim<\/a> Mickelson told the investors an announcement was coming that could’ve affected Sable’s stock price and that the golfer was part of a “co-ordinated” effort to get federal support for Sable’s oil project<\/p>\n

Should the allegations turn out to be true, it would land the LIV Golf man in serious legal hot water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mickelson<\/a> has denied wrongdoing and fired back on social media, blasting the report’s accusations as “slanderous” and accusing the publication of “stock manipulation”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He made it clear that he did not trade on the information he received.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So a company says I can’t say anything to you but we will announce something at the close,” Mickelson wrote on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if it’s a dilution and the stock goes down or a deal for the stock to go up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I have to wait to see what the info is, I make no trades whatsoever and am ultra ultra careful given past history. I don’t even share that information is coming til after the close.”<\/p>\n

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\"Phil <\/p>\n

Phil Mickelson<\/p>\n

Mickelson’s “past history” comment refers to his first dance with insider trading accusations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2016, the golf star paid the SEC more than $1m to settle a case linked to famous gambler Billy Walters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was alleged Walters tipped off Mickelson, telling him to buy stock from Dean Foods before a major announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mickelson did so and made approximately $931,000 in profit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The SEC investigated both men and, although Mickelson was never charged, was named as a “relief defendant”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mickelson paid up, plus interest, to settle the case. Walters was convicted and sentenced to five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When he was released, he made some eye-popping claims about Mickelson’s gambling habits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Walters was also upset that Mickelson refused to testify in his trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’ve always prided myself on being a good judge of character,” he previously told Sports Illustrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“And I was hurt. I mean, I’ll be honest with you, and frankly, when it was time for him to just be a stand-up guy and come forward and tell the truth, he wouldn’t do it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson is once again facing serious questions over his money moves.\u00a0 A bombshell report from financial outlet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,5227,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-543147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-phil-mickelson","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115477430459949344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}