PGA Tour editor Evin Priest, at Muirfield Village, Ohio Phil Mickelson dropped a bombshell at the US PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament on Saturday. Lefty is set to withdraw from the one major championship that has eluded him, revealing he’ll skip the 2017 US Open to in order to attend his daughter Amanda’s high school graduation. The Read more…
Phil Mickelson has informed the United States Golf Association that he will not play in the US Open at Erin Hills in two weeks, choosing instead to attend daughter Amanda’s high school graduation in California.
For weeks, we’ve heard that Erin Hills isn’t your typical US Open venue thanks to extra-wide landing areas off the tee that indicate an edge to golf’s longest hitters. But it appears that if you miss those fairways, the rough is as penal – if not more – than what you’d expect at America’s national championship.
He’s still nursing a back injury courtesy of a bizarre mishap during Masters week, but Dustin Johnson remains the bookies’ favourite for the US Open in June.
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