{"id":443713,"date":"2026-02-01T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:59:08","slug":"phil-mickelson-withdraws-from-liv-golf-events-due-to-family-health-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443713\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson Withdraws From LIV Golf Events Due to Family Health Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">Phil Mickelson is skipping the start to the LIV Golf league season this week due to a family health matter that he announced via social media.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">Mickelson, 55, the six-time major champion who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/news\/exclusive-phil-mickelson-on-liv-golf-and-his-pga-tour-status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went to LIV Golf in 2022<\/a> a year after becoming the oldest major champion when he captured the PGA Championship, will miss this week\u2019s event in Riyadh as well as one the following week in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">\u201cAmy and I need to be present for a family health matter,\u201d Mickelson said in his statement that also announced Ollie Schneiderjans would take his place as a reserve player on his HyFlyers team.<\/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 id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">Mickelson is coming off his best LIV Golf season as he finished 24th in the individual standings after posting three top 10 finishes. His HyFlyers team also finished fifth for the year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">More Golf on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson is skipping the start to the LIV Golf league season this week due to a family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-443713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}