Phil Mickelson suffered a minor shoulder harm throughout a exercise within the health club and can miss the LIV Golf season opener in Saudi Arabia this week.
Mickelson, 54, made the announcement Monday on social media.
Ollie Schniederjans will substitute Mickelson within the LIV subject this week, becoming a member of the captain’s HyFlyers group at LIV Golf Riyadh starting Thursday. The HyFlyers are nonetheless on the lookout for their first group victory.
Mickelson mentioned he expects to compete subsequent weekend at LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Membership in Australia.
“I am positively disillusioned that I’ll miss the season opener, however I stay up for enjoying in Adelaide,” he mentioned.
Schniederjans, a 31-year-old who grew up in Georgia, narrowly missed incomes a full LIV card on the LIV Golf Promotions occasion late final 12 months however gained the proper to play within the 10 occasions in The Worldwide Sequence in 2025.
He capitalized on that Sunday, profitable The Worldwide Sequence India by 4 strokes over U.S. Open champion and LIV star Bryson DeChambeau. One other stroke again in third place sat a pair of LIV gamers, Joaquín Niemann and Abraham Ancer.
