Phil Mickelson announced Thursday that he won’t play in next week’s Masters and will be out for an extended period as his family continues to “navigate a personal health matter.”<\/p>\n
It will be the first time since 1994 that five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods and Mickelson, a three-time winner of a green jacket, both miss the first major of the season.<\/p>\n
Woods announced Tuesday that he was “stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health,” announcing the decision four days after he was arrested on suspicion of DUI and refusal to submit to a lawful test stemming from a rollover car crash in Florida.<\/p>\n
Mickelson, 55, made the announcement on his social media accounts.<\/p>\n
“I have great respect for Augusta National Golf Club and it is definitely the most special week of the year,” Mickelson wrote in a statement. “I wish everyone the best of luck and will be watching.”<\/p>\n
Mickelson missed the first four LIV Golf League events this season because of the family situation. He returned two weeks ago in South Africa, where he tied for 48th.<\/p>\n
Mickelson was slated to make his 33rd start in the Masters, which he last won in 2010. The left-handed golfer ranks behind only Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan with his 16 top-10s at Augusta National, where he was runner-up behind Jon Rahm in 2023.<\/p>\n
Mickelson last missed the Masters in 2022, following his controversial comments about Saudi Arabia’s monarchy and the PGA Tour. At that time, he hadn’t missed the tournament since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson announced Thursday that he won’t play in next week’s Masters and will be out for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-578220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}