Phil Mickelson talks up LIV Golf 2023 season: A lot of stuff is going to happen

Phil Mickelson believes "a lot of stuff is going to happen" on the LIV Golf Tour next year as he reflected on an action-packed season on and off the course.

Mickelson, 52, complemented how far the Saudi-backed series had come since hosting its first event at the Centurion Club near London at the start of June.

The six-time major champion was revealed as the headline act of that event late in the day and his acquisition got the ball rolling with other big names leaving the PGA Tour including Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau.

Mickelson attributed LIV Golf's success to the "strong characters" that commissioner Greg Norman has signed on. Despite a tough start to the inaugural season, Lefty made his first top-10 at the Chicago Invitational, the fifth event on the schedule.

Having taken a four-month break from the game at the start of the year, Mickelson is focused on getting back to his best golf which he showed glimmers of when losing to Cameron Smith in a singles match in the Team Championship quarter-finals on Friday in Miami.

He is now over the turbulence he experienced in February after he described Saudi Arabia as "scary mother******s", which allegedly almost ruined the launch of the new rebel tour.

"I’m starting to play some pretty good golf, so heading into this offseason, I’m gonna put in a little bit of work and see if I can make a nice run the next couple of years and play a level that I know I can. I’m starting to start play a lot better," he said.

"I’m pretty surprised at how far LIV has come because there was a lot of uncertainty, like who would play in London. You look at the strength of the league now and you have a lot of really strong players and you have a lot of really strong characters in the game.

"Whether you love them or hate them, there’s a lot of guys here that people want to see.

"I think there’s a lot of possibilities and I’m not sure how it’ll play out. I just know that in the next, over the course of the next year, a lot of stuff is going to happen, and things will kind of iron themselves out."

Mickelson also said that "multiple tours" are coming to LIV Golf asking to host one of their events. It currently has a 'strategic alliance' with the MENA Tour in the hope of gaining OWGR points next year.

World ranking points and a TV broadcast deal are two key areas you'd assume Mickelson alluded to with LIV's 2023 plans and their quest for continual growth.