Phil Mickelson at Medinah ahead of the 2012 Ryder Cup.
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Its not news that Phil Mickelson liked to gamble. Its also not news that his betting led to staggering losses. Those losses had been previously reported in the neighborhood of $40 million.
But a former Mickelson associate alleges that was a lowball number.
Like, really low.
According to a new account by a former gambling partner of Mickelsons, the golfers losses amounted to closer to $100 million, the nine-figure downside to a destructive habit that saw Mickelson wager more than $1 billion over the past 30 years.
And the damage would have been worse, the same account alleges, had Mickelson not been talked out of placing what would ha…
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