Six-time main winner Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from subsequent week’s PGA Championship due to “a private well being matter along with his household”, organisers have stated.
The 55-year-old American additionally missed last month’s Masters, saying on the time he could be out for an “prolonged time period as my household continues to navigate a private well being matter”.
Mickelson, winner of the PGA Championship in 2005 and 2021, had been listed among the many 154-strong discipline launched on Tuesday for the match at Aronimink Golf Membership in Newton Sq., Pennsylvania from 14-17 Could.
However his withdrawal was introduced later within the day, with fellow American Max Homa changing him.
Mickelson additionally sat out the primary 4 occasions of the 2026 LIV Golf season, at Riyadh, Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore. He additionally cited a “household well being matter” when saying his preliminary absence on 1 February.
Though he returned to motion in March at Steyn Metropolis in South Africa, the place he completed tied for forty eighth place, he later introduced his break from golf in early April.
Mickelson’s 2021 PGA Championship victory meant he grew to become the oldest main champion on the age of fifty.
