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Billy Horschel: Phil Mickelson has likely tarnished legacy with Saudi comments

Add Billy Horschel to the list of PGA Tour players not happy with Phil Mickelson's recently revealed comments about the Saudi Golf League.

Speaking with Golf Channel's Matt Adams on Adams' Fairways of Life Podcast, Horschel called Mickelson's controversial comments both "idiotic" and "false" while noting that Mickelson's legacy has likely been tarnished.

A few days prior, an excerpt from a November interview that Mickelson did with writer Alan Shipnuck was released. In that interview, Mickelson talked about overlooking the Saudis' poor human-rights record in order to gain leverage on the PGA Tour. Those thoughts were made public after Mickelson accused the Tour of "obnoxious greed" and said the Tour was withholding $20 billion in digital assets from the players.