https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/05/pga-championship-justin-thomas-bones-mackay-phil-mickelson-beautiful-loss
Wow. Phil owed Bones hundreds of thousands of dollars in overdue back pay.
"Shipnuck also delves into the breakup of Phil and Bones, his caddie of 25 years, and says that Bones fired Phil after the 2017 Memorial and that money was âa big factorâ in their split."
âMoney was a big factor in Mickelsonâs bust-up with his career-long caddie, Jim (Bones) Mackay. They announced their split in June 2017 with chummy matching press releases. At the time, the overriding emotion in golf circles was disbelief. âIt felt like your parents were splitting up,â says John Wood, a longtime Tour caddie and now an NBC/Golf Channel commentator. The statements made the divorce sound amicable, but that was nonsense. Bones had fired Phil at the â17 Memorial, over a series of simmering grievances (laid out in detail in the book), including hundreds of thousands of dollars in overdue back pay.â