In case you missed it, Phil Mickelson announced that he's going to possibly leave out america Open to attend his daughter's high faculty commencement.
You can get all of the information from this PGATOUR.Com article, but basically it comes down to this: Phil's daughter Amanda is the school president and scheduled to give the graduation address. Since her commencement is on Thursday morning of america Open, and Phil lives in California -- that's two hours behind Wisconsin, where the USA Open will be held -- even an afternoon tee time is unlikely to provide him enough time to fly again after the commencement rite.
Look at it this way: It takes kind of four hours to fly from CA to WI, and then you have the 2-hour time difference. If Phil turned into able to leave at 11am CA time, it might nonetheless be round 5pm WI time earlier than he arrived -- a lot too overdue to play.
Phil hasn't withdrawn yet. It's viable that something could show up to make all of it feasible -- possibly the commencement ceremony needs to be rescheduled for some motive, or the primary round of the USA Open gets a climate delay. But Phil is not relying on both, and stated he desired his exchange into the event to be prepared to play, in addition to for the USGA to know earlier than they made the TV tee times.
But even if Phil misses the Erin Hills fundamental, the next two web sites -- Shinnecock Hills and Pebble Beach -- need to supply him exact shots at the only major that has eluded him. The 2020 web page, Winged Foot, might match him as properly...
Assuming that daughter Sofia doesn't have her graduation during that week.
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