![]() ![]() They’ve been able to get by with manipulative, coercive, strong-arm tactics because we, the players, had no recourse. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates. They execute people over there for being gay. “We know they killed Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. “They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with,” he said. He didn’t pretend to be excited about hitching his fortunes to Saudi Arabia, admitting the SGL was nothing more than what he called “sportswashing” by a brutally repressive regime. Mickelson told me he had enlisted three other “top players” he declined to name and that they paid for attorneys to write the SGL’s operating agreement, codifying that the players would have control of all the details. Knowing that in the course of my reporting I had conducted (nearly 200) interviews with both his critics and supporters, Mickelson couldn’t resist trying to peddle influence regarding one of the most polarizing chapters in a quarrelsome career. Mickelson has refrained from saying anything of substance publicly about the upstart SGL, but his involvement in the birth of the tour is much more extensive than has been previously known he laid out the details for me in a long phone call last November, as I was putting the finishing touches on my forthcoming book Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar. I wish him the best of luck as it’s a record that deserves an audience.What does Phil Mickelson want? The answers are contained in a new book about the vexing superstarĪs the Saudi Golf League threatens to create a new world order for professional golf, one of the biggest questions in the game can be boiled down to three words: Whither Phil Mickelson? Mercurial, strident, Machiavellian, the 51-year-old Hall of Famer is, as has often been the case, engulfed in controversy. Woody will, I feel certain, spend considerable time and effort promoting and playing, doing his level best to ensure this collection of songs is heard. Such is the case for the working musician. The future of this independently recorded and released record is still very much in the air. ![]() The music is also punctuated with guest appearances that I feel should be kept Star Wars-style surprises. That’s not so surprising as the current incarnation of the Happy Bones band includes some significant Augusta talent, including the semi-legendary Jo Bones, one of this writer’s favorite bass players. It’s an amalgamation of musical styles and, more particularly, those musical cues that have proved most popular and influential in Augusta music. There are nods to hip hop, hippie rock – nearly any classic pop form capable of telling a substantial story. There is acoustic folk and hard riffing, deep funk and Southern boogie. While always cohesive, the eponymous album draws from a variety of musical sources. ![]() One of the more interesting aspects of Happy Bones is how difficult it becomes to pinpoint and describe its very distinctive sound. ![]() He is, in fact, an artist of impressive musical means and now, with the very first Happy Bones album – a record some 25 years in the making – he’s ready to prove his point. He has something significant he wants to share and it extends far beyond the broken-couch blues often associated with him. It was, to be sure, a comfortable place and one I certainly enjoyed visiting from time to time. My thought has always been that Woody felt a certain sense of satisfaction, writing and performing in the very finite universe of his own creation. It’s an act that local musicians have always thought highly of, that fans have followed from one bar gig to the next but has flown, somewhat criminally, below the radar. The performance project of one Judge Shawn “Woody” Wood, the Bones, in its many varied forms, has been gracing Augusta stages since the mid-1990s. That, quite clearly, is not the case for the Augusta act Happy Bones. Far too often I see acts perform before they are prepared or, even worse, enter the studio. There’s nothing more painful than art that seems incomplete, ill-considered or dashed off. It is, I believe, important for an artist to take their time. ![]()
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