Phil Mickelson’s West Coast swing will look decidedly different this year.
For the first time in 29 years, Mickelson will skip the Farmers Insurance Open, his hometown event about 12 miles from his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. In a tweet announcing his upcoming schedule, he also said that he will miss the Genesis Open at Riviera, a course where he has won twice and finished second on two other occasions.
Instead, Mickelson, the 36-hole leader at the Desert Classic, will play the Waste Management Phoenix Open, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and then the WGC-Mexico Championship, where he is the defending champion.