{"id":446070,"date":"2026-02-03T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:42:08","slug":"mickelson-westwood-to-miss-riyadh-season-opener-schniederjans-schmidt-fill-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446070\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickelson, Westwood to miss Riyadh season opener; Schniederjans, Schmidt fill in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Schmidt, who\u2019s coming off a T16 finish at last week\u2019s Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship, will fill in for Westwood. The 23-year-old Englishman became the youngest-ever winner of the Brabazon Trophy (English Men&#8217;s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship) in 2019, winning by five shots while he was just 16 years old. That same year, he won two national titles, including the English Boys&#8217; U18 Open. He also represented Great Britain &amp; Ireland in the 2021 Walker Cup as one of its youngest members.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Schmidt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/majesticks-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majesticks Golf Club<\/a>\u2019s roster will feature Co-Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/ian-poulter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Poulter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/sam-horsfield\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Horsfield<\/a>, and new signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/laurie-canter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Canter<\/a>, as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Both Mickelson and Westwood are expecteed to miss the rest of this month and be ready to play beginning at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/schedule\/hong-kong-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HSBC LIV Golf Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Schmidt, who\u2019s coming off a T16 finish at last week\u2019s Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship, will fill in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-446070","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\/446070","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=446070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}