Phil Mickelson, a master of the short irons, suddenly finds himself in the middle of golf's biggest wedge issue.
The six-time major champion has been suspended by the PGA Tour for playing in a rival league event — he's a marquee attraction of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series — yet he believes it should be his choice as to whether he will play in another tour event.
"My preference is to be able to choose which path I would like, one or the other or both," Mickelson said Monday in his news conference leading into this week's U.S. Open, his first competition on American soil in more than four months.
