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After struggling with a gambling problem for years, Phil Mickelson claims he's got control of the issue - and is reaping the rewards of his high-priced LIV Golf contract.
Mickelson was paid a reported $200million to join the Saudi-backed breakaway golf league last year, but the three-time Masters winner hasn't always been responsible financially.
According to Alan Shipnuck, who wrote a biography on the golfer, Mickelson lost more than $40million gambling between 2010-14.
'In those prime earning years, his income was estimated to be just north of $40 million a year,' Shipnuck wrote in an excerpt of the biography published on The Fire Pit Collective.
Now, however, Mickelson says things have changed.
Phil Mickelson claimed he was close to being a billionaire in a Twitter thread on Friday
Responding to a Twitter user that asked him how his gambling addiction was going, Mickelson said, 'Haven't gambled in years.
