{"id":20052,"date":"2025-06-27T21:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20052\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:10:12","slug":"phil-mickelson-drops-major-hint-on-whether-hes-played-his-last-ever-us-open-i-actually-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20052\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson drops major hint on whether he’s played his last ever US Open, ‘I actually think…’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Phil Mickelson missed the cut in the US Open at Oakmont a few weeks ago and the six-time major winner has now given the biggest clue yet as to whether he thinks he\u2019s finished or not at the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mickelson\u2019s career form has ensured he\u2019s always been part of the US Open but with exemptions expiring and LIV Golf not getting OWGR points, Mickelson\u2019s time of being an automatic qualifier for the US Open is over.<\/p>\n

Of course, now into his mid-50s, Mickelson doesn\u2019t exactly need to compete and has very much earned the right to pick and choose when he plays.<\/p>\n

However, golfers often can\u2019t stay away from the major championships if they get a chance to play.<\/p>\n

And while he missed the cut at Oakmont<\/a> and suggested his US Open run might be over, Mickelson has now dropped a subtle hint that all might be not lost.<\/p>\n

\"PhilPhoto by David Cannon\/Getty ImagesPhil Mickelson says whether he\u2019s going to play in another US Open<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a crying shame really that a player of Phil Mickelson\u2019s<\/a> calibre has never won the US Open.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s finished 2nd six times and has endured some of the most gut-wrenching finishes in the event to deny him glory.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Mickelson has been speaking ahead of LIV Dallas this week and has suggested that actually, he might not be done at the US Open just yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I said it\u2019s very possibly my last, and I think that\u2019s real. However, I also feel like I\u2019m starting to play some good golf, and I\u2019ve had \u2014 this year has been my best year on LIV. I\u2019ve had three top-6 finishes and some opportunities to win. If I play like that in some upcoming major championships, that could ultimately qualify me into another U.S. Open,\u201d Mickelson admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s my last. I actually think I\u2019m playing well enough that if I can play at the level I\u2019ve played at out here in majors again, I\u2019ll finish high enough to get into a U.S. Open via that qualifying avenue. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t want to say that it is my last because I think I\u2019m going to contend in the \u2014 I\u2019m in the other three majors for a lot of years, and it could very well get me into the U.S. Open again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Mickelson deserves another chance at Shinnecock in 2026<\/p>\n

Whether he qualifies or is given some sort of special invite or exemption, it\u2019s hard to argue that a player of Mickelson\u2019s calibre deserves at least one more shot.<\/p>\n

Shinnecock was the venue for one of his biggest near misses at the US Open, when he threw it away to Reteif Goosen after a disastrous double bogey on the 17th.<\/p>\n

With the 2026 event returning there, it would be some story if Mickelson was to play and somehow get in contention to win. <\/p>\n

Despite all the comments between him and the PGA over the years and whatever people\u2019s thoughts on LIV Golf are, Phil Mickelson has been one of the greatest golfers to ever play the game and with that, he deserves another shot.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson missed the cut in the US Open at Oakmont a few weeks ago and the six-time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,18752,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-20052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-phil-mickelson","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757384512682828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}