Phil Mickelson continues to pay a heavy price for chasing Saudi payday

Having withdrawn from the US PGA Championship, the reigning champion seems painfully aware of his pariah status

In his newly published and excellent book Tiger and Phil: Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry, Bob Harig describes the scene in the scoring tent at the conclusion of the 2002 US PGA Championship. That Rich Beem makes no worse than a bogey at the 72nd hole ensures a surprise one-stoke victory over Tiger Woods. Fred Funk looks on, bemused, as Woods bellows: Yes." Prompted to clarify his obscure outburst, Woods says: That's Rich Beem one, Phil Mickelson zero."

Lefty remained without a major title. The scale of antipathy between Mickelson and Woods was illustrated by the latter's strange display of emotion.