Phil Mickelson asked me to put $400,000 Ryder Cup bet in for him: Billy Walters

Phil Mickelson requested legendary sports activities gambler Billy Walters to guess $400,000 for him on the U.S. crew in a Ryder Cup during which he was enjoying, Walters claims in his new guide.

Walters’ guide, “The Gambler,” written with longtime investigative journalist Armen Keteyian, will likely be launched on Aug. 22.

The bombshell allegation is detailed in a guide excerpt published on the golf site Firepit Collective.

“Have you ever misplaced your f–king thoughts?” Walters recollects asking Mickelson. “Don’t you keep in mind what occurred to Pete Rose?”

The previous Cincinnati Reds supervisor was banned from baseball for betting on his personal crew.

“You’re seen as a modern-day Arnold Palmer,” Walters mentioned. “You’d threat all that for this? I need no a part of it.’’

Walters famous that he was uncertain if Mickelson went by way of with the guess utilizing one other supply.

This alleged request got here within the 2012 Ryder Cup in Chicago, which the U.S. misplaced after Europe overcame a 10-6 deficit on the ultimate day.

Based on Walters, this request got here a number of years right into a partnership, the place Walters would provide Mickelson with sports activities betting performs, and Mickelson would place the bets.

As Walters described it, Mickelson’s status as a dropping gambler enabled the golfer to have entry to put massive wagers with bookmakers who would severely restrict the scale of Walters’ bets as a result of he was a recognized winner.

“My cause for partnering with him was easy. Given my status within the playing world, my limits with Phil’s two bookmakers had been roughly $20,000 a recreation on faculty and $50,000 on the professionals,” Walters wrote.

“Even after our fifty-fifty cut up, Phil’s limits of $400,000 on faculty at offshore sportsbooks and one other $400,000 on the NFL enabled me to at the very least double my limits. Phil additionally had a $100,000 restrict on faculty over/underneath bets with every guide, twenty occasions my most.”

Walters was convicted in 2017 of insider buying and selling on the Dean Meals inventory, and believes that if Mickelson testified a “easy reality” that he wouldn’t have confronted time in jail.

Walters, who has denied wrongdoing within the case, was granted clemency by President Trump on his ultimate day in workplace in 2021.