{"id":700450,"date":"2026-04-02T21:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/700450\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:16:14","slug":"phil-mickelson-to-miss-masters-over-personal-health-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/700450\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Mickelson to miss Masters over personal health matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors byline-authors\">\n<li class=\"single-author mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/schlabach_mark.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Mark SchlabachApr 2, 2026, 03:55 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior college football writer<\/li>\n<li>Author of seven books on college football<\/li>\n<li>Graduate of the University of Georgia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"622fce94-22b9-eba8-74e0-98fe8a022b83\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/308\/phil-mickelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson<\/a> announced Thursday that he won&#8217;t play in next week&#8217;s Masters and will be out for an extended period as his family continues to &#8220;navigate a personal health matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time since 1994 that five-time Masters champion <a data-player-guid=\"b967ea91-ed2c-fad0-cf10-ba1dda3f869e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/462\/tiger-woods\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> and Mickelson, a three-time winner of a green jacket, both miss the first major of the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/48361336\/tiger-woods-stepping-away-golf-seek-treatment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woods announced Tuesday<\/a> that he was &#8220;stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health,&#8221; announcing the decision four days after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/48323862\/tiger-woods-arrested-crash-scene-suspicion-dui-sheriff-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested on suspicion of DUI<\/a> and refusal to submit to a lawful test stemming from a rollover car crash in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson, 55, made the announcement on his social media accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJniNxgrmE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oJniNxgrmE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilMickelson\/status\/2039779933648798113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I have great respect for Augusta National Golf Club and it is definitely the most special week of the year,&#8221; Mickelson wrote in a statement. &#8220;I wish everyone the best of luck and will be watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson missed the first four LIV Golf League events this season because of the family situation. He returned two weeks ago in South Africa, where he tied for 48th.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson was slated to make his 33rd start in the Masters, which he last won in 2010. The left-handed golfer ranks behind only <a data-player-guid=\"a05dfa7e-bea8-cc6c-f7fb-0e76cb450bde\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/320\/jack-nicklaus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Nicklaus<\/a> and Ben Hogan with his 16 top-10s at Augusta National, where he was runner-up behind <a data-player-guid=\"f7192f24-1537-e91b-de6f-3548d5989626\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9780\/jon-rahm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson last missed the Masters in 2022, following his controversial comments about Saudi Arabia&#8217;s monarchy and the PGA Tour. At that time, he hadn&#8217;t missed the tournament since 1994.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark SchlabachApr 2, 2026, 03:55 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":700451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-700450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116337192894057361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700450","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=700450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}