 wagering on them to win. Walters says he did not oblige. "'Have you lost your f****** mind?' I told him," the professional gambler writes. He then reminds Mickelson of the example made of former Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose whose ban from baseball was because of betting on the team. "'You'd risk all that for this? I want no part of it,''' Walters claims to have told the golfer. While Mickelson relented on the phone, his betting partner writes: "I have no idea whether Phil placed the bet elsewhere." That star-studded US team would eventually relinquish a 10-6 lead on the final day of the Ryder Cup to their European opponents, with Mickelson playing a part in the historic day by losing to Justin Rose. The reversal, still considered the finest comeback in tournament history, was dubbed the Miracle at Medinah . For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US. Walters also claims in the book that, based on the pair's p){kind=link}
Infamous gambler Billy Walters makes several significant claims about the staggering extent of Phil Mickelson’s sports betting activity in an upcoming autobiography
Phil Mickelson is facing claims from Billy Walters that he attempted to bet on the US team through the professional gambler while playing in the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah.
Walters, renowned for his success wagering on American sports, makes the allegation about Mickelson in an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk. He claims they had a five-year-long betting partnership that stopped in the spring of 2014.
The septuagenarian recalls receiving a call from Mickelson from within the Medinah Country Club, the host course of that year’s Ryder Cup. A member of the defending American team headlined by Bubba Watson and Tiger Woods, the golf is claimed to have asked Walters to make a bet on his behalf.
It is said that such was the American’s confidence in succeeding that Mickelson wanted $400,000 (just over $300,000) wagering on them to win. Walters says he did not oblige.