Inside Phil Mickelson’s lavish lifestyle, living in mansions, drinking £32,000 wine and collecting dinosaur skulls

PHIL Mickelson risks the wrath of the PGA Tour.

'Lefty' will play in the first event of the Saudi Arabia‑backed LIV Golf Series, a 54-hole event at Hertfordshire's Centurion Club from Thursday.

There is the potential to earn hundreds of millions of pounds for participating in the LIV tournaments - although the PGA Tour are threatening to ban those who sign up.

It means Mickelson should add a significant chunk to his already mega £240million wealth and continue to fund his lavish lifestyle with ease.

For the 51-year-old golfer lives a life of luxury - with super homes and expensive cars the norm for one of the world's leading sportsmen.

Mickelson, though, also has his quirks... and they won't come cheap.

In his spare time he bought a priceless T-Rex skull, and has a piece of a meteorite that crashed in Argentina in the 1930s.

Homes

Mickelson is still building a home in Florida tax haven and golfer's hotspot Jupiter Island, according to reports.

He bought land in 2020, near Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan and is looking to move there in the near future.

Previously, he lived with wife Amy and their children Evan, Sophia and Amanda in a £1.5million home in San Diego from 1999 until they sold up in 2012.

They then resided in Rancho Santa Fe in a stunning £4.5million 9,100 square-foot home, before listing it in 2014.

Cars & planes

Like rival Tiger Woods, Mickelson has a love of cars.

One of the many motors he's been seen in is the classy Bentley Continental GT - worth £160,000.

Another is the more pricey Aston Martin Vanquish that has a horse power of 595 and top speed of 201 mph and would have set him back around 200,000.

Then there's his customised 48-volt EV EZGO golf cart that's the envy of the PGA Tour, that cost over £10,000.

However, what's most impressive about Mickelson is that he holds his own pilot's licence - and is known to fly himself to most destinations.

He used to own a £32million Gulfstream V jet, but sold it in 2021.

Now, he uses Dubai-based company Vista Global to fly privately.

Wine

As an avid collector of wine, you can only imagine the vintages found in Mickelson's cellar.

After all, this is a man who once poured a bottle of 1990 Romanee Conti into the Claret Jug he won after his Open triumph in 2013 - that he carried around with him everywhere he went and used it as a jug.

"I’ve loved having the Jug with me for the last 12 months," he told the Scotsman.

"The people who know and love the game get a big kick out of it. They really appreciate what it means to hold such a famous trophy. And drink out of it."

When quizzed about what he drank from it, he replied: "I only let them drink the good stuff of course.

"There’s been nothing in there that is sub-par. But the best was a 1990 bottle of Romanee Conti wine. It wasn’t on my dime thankfully. It costs about $40,000."

He repeated that trick - chugging a £400 bottle of Black Magic Cabernet Sauvignon from his Wanamaker trophy in 2021.

Astonishingly, it became the fastest-selling in Napa Valley.

Skulls and meteorites

Being rich, and having everything you want, can lead to extortionate hobbies.

And this is where Mickelson is different to the rest of the sporting world.

He collects dinosaur skulls, and has an amazing T-Rex head that was gifted to him as a birthday present.

And that's not all. Another of his prized possessions are his meteorites - with one a present from missus, Amy.

"That's from Argentina, a crash from the 1930s, I believe," he told the .

"I got that from Amy last Christmas. It weighs about 300 pounds and is the size of a basketball. I also have a small one that friends gave to me. It's about the size of a softball. There are more meteorites around than dinosaurs."