Phil Mickelson: No need to comment on 'every little report'
— -- Phil Mickelson on Tuesday shed little light on an ESPN.com report that linked the five-time major championship winner to an illegal gambling operation.
Mickelson, speaking in Gullane, Scotland, ahead of this weekend's Scottish Open -- his first tournament since the report came out June 29 -- said he didn't feel it was necessary to comment on the story.
"People are going to say things good; they are going to say things bad; they are going to say things true; they are going to say things not true," Mickelson told reporters. "The fact is, I'm comfortable enough with who I am as a person that I don't feel like I need to comment on every little report that comes out."
According to two sources and court documents obtained by Outside the Lines, $2.75 million transferred from Mickelson to an intermediary was part of "an illegal gambling operation which accepted and placed bets on sporting events."
Mickelson has not been charged with a crime and is not under federal investigation.
But sources told Outside the Lines that he is the unnamed "gambling client" of former sports handicapper Gregory Silveira, 56, who has pleaded guilty to three counts of laundering money as part of an illegal betting operation between 2010 and 2013.
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