MEDINAH, Ill. – Phil Mickelson will make his scheduled 11:52 a.m. ET tee time after lightning struck his hotel and set fire to the roof.
Intense storms in the Chicago area that altered Sunday’s start at the BMW Championship threatened to end Mickelson’s 2018-19 season one round early.
Mickelson tweeted on Saturday, roughly 90 minutes before his schedule tee time, that lightning hit the top floor of his hotel, sparking a fire and leaving him unable to return to his room.
“I can’t back into my room and may miss me tee times because I am without clubs and clothes,” he wrote.