Phil Mickelson feeling more bullies for us open future

Phil Mickelson, fresh by a disappointing cut in the US Open at the beginning and left the property.

While his latest invitation excluded that came with the win of the 2021 PGA championship, may have been his last time in the National Golf Championship, and He showed as such in the lead of the event.

But it turns out that Mickelson may not be ready to throw in the towel yet.

“I said it’s a lot of my last last, and I think it’s true,” Mickelson said Thursday Golf Dallas LifeThe first time he has spoken to the press since his lost cutting in Oakmont. “However, I also feel like starting to play a good golf. This year has been my best year in Liv. I have had three top six ends and some opportunities to win. If I play like it in some major next championships, which can eventually qualify for another SH.BA”

Mickelson shot back-back-back with four-top 74 at US Open at Oakmont Country Club. Finishing on Friday with rainy, he seemed destined for the weekend until he played his last four holes in four. He made doubles in 15 and 17, and in 18 he simply lost a proof of birds that would allow him to cut the number.

Oakmont’s lost cut meant that he failed to qualify for the weekend in all three diplomas so far this season. It was also his fourth lost direct cut into a US Open, a tour that has long extended the sample six times larger. He has finally ended up as a US six -step competitor: 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2013.

“I don’t want to say it’s the last,” he said on Thursday. “I really think I’m playing quite well that if I can play at the level I played here again in the diplomas, I’ll end up high enough to enter an open US through that qualifying path. So I don’t mean it’s the last last because I think I’m going to pretend.

Mickelson, 55, still has the opportunity for the future openings. While earning another large or taking its highly high world ranking provides motor invitations, they can be impossible roads (Liv still does not get world ranking). Exist as well The exclusion of newly created For a senior Liv player not already qualified. It can also progress through final qualification. Or he could hope to take on a special exception from the USA, which he received in 2021, but ended up without needing after he won the PGA on the island of Kiawah.

2026 US Open is in Shinnecock Hills in Long Island; The last time he was played there, in 2018, Mickelson was penalized two strokes when he hit a ball on the move (several times) in the 13th green during the second round of Saturday.

“My anger and frustration took the best for me last weekend,” he texted some reporters after the consequences. “I’m embarrassed and disappointed by my actions. It wasn’t clear my best moment and I’m sorry.”

At US Open, John Bodenhamer, USA Chief Championship, was asked if USGA would consider giving Mickelson a future exception.

“We would review things for Shinnecock before next year and look at all those opportunities and appreciate them from there,” he said. “I think the way we would think about Phil is that we hope he will win his way, and I think he will tell you the same thing. That’s what he did last time. We gave him one and then he went out and won the PGA championship.

Mickelson has played at 34 US Opens, associated with Hale Irwin for the second most. Jack Nicklaus played at 44.

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