{"id":498979,"date":"2026-03-02T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:23:11","slug":"phil-mickelson-to-miss-third-straight-liv-golf-event-as-two-time-hong-kong-winner-steps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498979\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson To Miss Third Straight LIV Golf Event As Two-Time Hong Kong Winner Steps In"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After missing the first two tournaments of the 2026 LIV Golf League season<\/a>, Phil Mickelson is set to miss the third outing of the year.<\/p>\n

Replaced by Ollie Schniederjans at LIV Golf Riyadh, Wade Ormsby came in for Mickelson at LIV Golf Adelaide<\/a>, with the Aussie set to continue at LIV Golf Hong Kong, which takes place March 5-8th.<\/p>\n

In a social post on HyFlyers GC’s social pages, the caption read: “We are excited to have Wade join the team again in Hong Kong as he steps in for Phil. As a two-time winner of The Hong Kong Open, Wade brings a great deal of familiarity to Hong Kong Golf Club.”<\/p>\n

HyFlyers GC captain, Mickelson, revealed back in January that he was dealing with a family health matter, and with Ormsby stepping in for the 55-year-old, it will mark back-to-back starts for the five-time Asian Tour winner.<\/p>\n

Teeing it up in his hometown of Adelaide, Ormsby fired rounds of 73, 67, 71 and 71 to finish in a share of 37th. Following on from that event, he produced an excellent T6th at the New Zealand Open on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n

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Ormsby during LIV Golf Adelaide | Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Although he missed out on a spot at The Open Championship, which went to fellow LIV Golfer Lucas Herbert<\/a>, the T6th result was Ormsby’s best finish since his victory at the Jakarta International Championship, an International Series tournament.<\/p>\n

His recent form, alongside his Hong Kong Open wins in 2017 and 2020, means he will be a part of the HyFlyers GC, which includes Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale and new recruit, Michael La Sasso.<\/a><\/p>\n

At LIV Golf Riyadh, the HyFlyers GC came bottom of the leaderboard with a 14-under total. The following week, the American team finished 11th, carding a 22-under score.<\/p>\n

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Mickelson last teed it up in a competitive event at the LIV Golf Team Championship | Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

At the first two tournaments, Majesticks GC’S co-captain Lee Westwood withdrew due to injury<\/a> and was replaced by Ben Schmidt, who finished T41st and T44th in Riyadh and Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Martin Kaymer, who captains the Cleeks GC, also suffered with injury at LIV Golf Adelaide<\/a>, being replaced by John Catlin.<\/p>\n

Currently, it’s unclear as to whether Westwood and Kaymer will be present at Hong Kong Golf Club, where Sergio Garcia claimed victory in 2025, firing an 18-under total and securing a three shot win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[2934,427,5425,227862,227863,220342,227861,227865,227860,227864,16336,99,227859],"class_list":["post-498979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-getty-images","tag-golf","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-golf-club","tag-hyflyers-gc","tag-liv-golf-adelaide","tag-liv-golf-hong-kong","tag-liv-golf-league","tag-liv-golf-riyadh","tag-ollie-schniederjans","tag-phil-mickelson","tag-sports","tag-wade-ormsby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498979","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=498979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}