{"id":459939,"date":"2026-02-05T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459939\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:17:17","slug":"phil-mickelson-cites-family-health-matter-for-pulling-out-of-liv-golf-adelaide-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459939\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson cites &#8216;family health matter&#8217; for pulling out of LIV Golf Adelaide \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Patrick McDermott]<\/p>\n<p>Between Brooks Koepka leaving LIV Golf and Patrick Reed announcing that he won\u2019t return, there\u2019s been a lot of movement and a lack of star power filling the league\u2019s roster this year.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/brooks-koepka-pga-tour-reinstatement-liv-golf-phil-mickelson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The subtle way the PGA Tour\u2019s \u2018Brooks Koepka\u2019 reinstatement policy leaves Phil Mickelson out in the cold<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Phil Mickelson won\u2019t play in the first two events of the season. The six-time major champion announced on social media overnight that he will be out a few weeks to deal with an unspecified family health situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not be able to participate in the first two LIV events as Amy and I need to be present for a family health matter,\u201d Mickelson wrote. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to compete again and look forward to rejoining my teammates as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DaN6HtYvqo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DaN6HtYvqo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilMickelson\/status\/2017992125367861515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mickelson noted that Ollie Schniederjans would take his place on his HyFlyers squad for the first event at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia this week, when LIV will play its first 72-hole tournament after having a 54-hole format until this season. Next week the league heads to our shores and the Grange Golf Club, yet it was not mentioned who would replace Mickelson in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced in January that reigning NCAA champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/michael-la-sasso-liv-golf-masters-exemption-ncaa-eligibility-phil-mickelson-hi-flyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael La Sasso would join<\/a> Mickelson\u2019s team in 2026, replacing Andy Ogletree. That means that La Sasso is forfeiting the spring semester of his senior year at the University of Mississippi and giving up his invitation to play in the Masters. Former LIV Golf Adelaide winner Brendan Steele and Cameron Tringale are the other HyFlyers members.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson has not yet won an individual title during his time with LIV Golf. He finished in third place last year at the league\u2019s event in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Patrick McDermott] Between Brooks Koepka leaving LIV Golf and Patrick Reed announcing that he won\u2019t return, there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,236456,14239,126132,44,234063,1205,85],"class_list":["post-459939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-hyflyers-gc","tag-liv-golf","tag-liv-golf-adelaide","tag-news","tag-ollie-schniederjans","tag-phil-mickelson","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}