Phil Mickelson's absence from competitive golf to continue as defending champ withdraws from next week's PGA Championship
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(0:32)Reigning PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson, who hasn't played competitively in more than three months, won't defend his title next week at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The PGA of America announced Friday that Mickelson has withdrawn from the PGA Championship."We have just been informed that Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from the PGA Championship," the statement said. Woods last played in the Masters, when he returned competitively for the first time since his February 2021 car wreck.Last month, Mickelson, a six-time major champion, skipped the Masters, an event he has won three times, for the first time since 1994.Mickelson became golf's oldest major champion by winning the PGA at Kiawah Island in South Carolina at age 50 last year.
As said here by Mark SchlabachESPN Senior Writer