{"id":444287,"date":"2026-02-02T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:50:09","slug":"mickelson-to-miss-time-on-liv-due-to-family-health-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444287\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickelson to miss time on LIV due to &#8216;family health matter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"622fce94-22b9-eba8-74e0-98fe8a022b83\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/308\/phil-mickelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson<\/a> said Sunday he will miss the opening two LIV Golf events this year because of a &#8220;family health matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson, 55, didn&#8217;t offer any additional details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not be able to participate in the first two LIV events as [wife] Amy and I need to be present for a family health matter,&#8221; Mickelson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilMickelson\/status\/2017992125367861515\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in a social media post<\/a>. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to compete again and look forward to rejoining my teammates as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson captains LIV&#8217;s HyFlyers GC team, which includes <a data-player-guid=\"786ab60d-5ae3-e782-6447-57ad800bcc17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3596\/brendan-steele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Steele<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"ae1b8293-dfe8-c03d-72c1-b0a37be43d72\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/4645\/cameron-tringale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Tringale<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"06799167-3cb2-3c79-98e3-308b62b5d0c8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/528981\/michael-la-sasso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael La Sasso<\/a>, the 2025 NCAA champion who joined the breakaway circuit last month. Mickelson said <a data-player-guid=\"139238e9-9b57-3387-8c17-db929fb2bda6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9568\/ollie-schniederjans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ollie Schniederjans<\/a> will replace him while he&#8217;s out.<\/p>\n<p>LIV opens its season this week in Saudi Arabia, followed by an event in Australia from Feb. 12-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson said Sunday he will miss the opening two LIV Golf events this year because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-444287","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\/444287","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=444287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}