PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Phil Mickelson first competed in The Players Championship as a senior at Arizona State in 1992, the year before Justin Thomas, Daniel Berger and Jordan Spieth were even born.
So his decision not to play a practice round this week at the TPC Sawgrass was really not that big of a deal.
Mickelson had an outing Monday after the Wells Fargo Championship and had planned on a practice round Tuesday.
”I was just a little tired, so I just kind of took the day off,” he said after opening with a 70.