{"id":766823,"date":"2026-06-29T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:43:10","slug":"phil-mickelson-out-of-open-championship-to-miss-all-four-majors-for-first-time-in-professional-career-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766823\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson out of Open Championship, to miss all four majors for first time in professional career \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Johan Rynners]<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mickelson will miss all four majors for the first time in his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson\u2019s name is no longer listed in the Open Championship\u2019s field on the tournament\u2019s website, instead moving to the non-playing portion of exempt players. Mickelson captured the claret jug in 2013 at Muirfield, and past champions are allowed to compete until they are 60 years old.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/phil-mickelson-inappropriate-contact-female-club-employee-the-farms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson accused of inappropriate contact with female course employee; Mickelson rep\u00a0confirms he\u2019s no longer at the club<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mickelson\u2019s only competitive appearance of the year came in mid-March at LIV Golf\u2019s South Africa event, where he tied for 48th. Ahead of the LIV Golf season opener in Saudi Arabia, Mickelson posted on social media he would not be able to play in LIV\u2019s first two events because he and wife Amy needed to be present for a family health matter. He missed the Masters in April for the same reason, saying he would be \u201cout for an extended period of time\u201d. He withdrew from the PGA Championship and wasn\u2019t extended a special invitation for the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/phil-mickelson-inappropriate-contact-female-club-employee-the-farms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golf Digest reported that Mickelson<\/a> is no longer a member of his hometown club, the Farms outside San Diego, after a female club employee accused the six-time major champion of making non-consensual, inappropriate contact with her before a round of golf. Mickelson declined invitations to comment directly on the allegations, but a spokesperson for the golfer offered the following statement to Golf Digest: \u201cAny misunderstanding has been cleared up. Phil continues to attend to a family health matter and is uncertain when he will be able to return to professional golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson\u2019s defamation lawyer Tom Clare also told Golf Digest, \u201cThere is a great deal of misinformation circulating and, while Phil\u2019s full attention is devoted to a private family health matter, he has retained defamation counsel and is determined to hold accountable any publication or individual trafficking in speculation or false rumours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/us-open-2026-phil-mickelson-report-shinnecock-the-loop-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Where does Phil Mickelson go from here?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will be the first time Mickelson has missed the Open since 2009, when he pulled out of the event to be with Amy during cancer treatments. Tiger Woods, Zach Johnson and Ernie Els are other past champions not in the field at Royal Birkdale. During the weekend, Dustin Johnson pulled out of Open local qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The Open begins on July 16. Scottie Scheffler is the defending champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Johan Rynners] Phil Mickelson will miss all four majors for the first time in his professional career.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,139396,44,2503,1205,115133,186600,85],"class_list":["post-766823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-majors","tag-news","tag-open-championship","tag-phil-mickelson","tag-ra","tag-royal-birkdale-golf-club","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766823","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=766823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}