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Phil Mickelson may face important hurdles in returning to the PGA Tour as LIV Golf loses financial backing from the PIF after the 2026 season.

A quantity of gamers defected to LIV Golf when the breakaway circuit was first launched in 2022. However, after 4 years, the league formally misplaced its funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), leaving the future unsure for the group and key figures such as Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Jon Rahm as Jordan Spieth weighed in on the prospect of their return.

Koepka made his approach back to the PGA Tour through the Returning Member Program earlier this 12 months. But Mickelson’s state of affairs is an completely different matter.

Former ESPN host Trey Wingo insisted that a return for Mickelson isn’t a lifelike risk.

“I can promise you one person that you’ll never see in any way in an official capacity with the PGA Tour is Phil Mickelson. That bridge has been burned, detonated, destroyed, nuked, lazered to death. There is no building that bridge back,” Wingo acknowledged.

Mickelson has been no stranger to voicing his views, political or in any other case, on social media, and the six-time major winner might have irreparably broken his standing with the American circuit as a end result.

Mickelson sat out the first 4 occasions of the LIV Golf season to attend to a personal matter, and was equally absent from the Masters due to the same issue. Meanwhile, the CEO of LIV Golf seems to have contradicted himself, assuring workers the Tour would press forward — only for their New Orleans event to be pulled from the schedule without a alternative date.

“I want to be crystal clear,” wrote CEO Scott O’Neil. “Our season continues exactly as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle.”

Rahm is among the few who seem undisturbed by the Tour’s current turmoil and unsure future. “Until the people in charge told me if the rumors were valid or not, it didn’t make sense for me to think about it or to waste time thinking about it,” he said, via Sky Sports.

“As everything suddenly came out, so quickly, I wasn’t too worried about that, because normally, before the rumours come out, we know something.

“There’s always somebody in the league who is aware of one thing. It was so fast that I did not actually fear about it.”