Trey Wingo Says Phil Mickelson Will Never Return to PGA Tour
Trey Wingo said phil mickelson will never be seen in any official capacity with the PGA Tour again. The former host tied that view to a relationship he described as beyond repair, with Mickelson’s role in LIV Golf making the split final in his eyes.
Trey Wingo On Mickelson
“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, lasered to death. There is no building that bridge back.” Wingo said that in a recent sit-down with Awful Announcing.
Wingo’s language left little room for a soft landing. He said Mickelson burned every bridge he had built over the decades with the PGA Tour, and he added that the six-time major champion is well beyond his prime. That is the part that makes the comment more than a throwaway line: it is not just about the past, but about whether the Tour would ever place him in any official role again.
LIV Golf And The Split
The timing matters because Mickelson played a major role in getting LIV Golf up and running before the circuit’s inaugural event in 2022. LIV launched in 2021 and has since incurred reported losses between $6 billion and $9 billion, which has fueled talk about what happens if its funding changes.
Reports suggest the Saudi Public Investment Fund may cease funding LIV Golf after the current season, and the article says the Tour may welcome back some LIV players if that happens, but not all. Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Cameron Smith, Tyrrell Hatton and Joaquin Niemann are among the players named as possible adds if returns are allowed.
Brooks Koepka And Patrick Reed
There is already one sign that the Tour is willing to make selective moves. It welcomed back Brooks Koepka to begin 2026 with strict specifications, and Patrick Reed is set to return in an official capacity this fall.
That leaves Mickelson in a different lane from players who could be folded back in if LIV loses support. For now, Wingo’s stance is direct: the door is shut, the bridge is gone, and Mickelson’s PGA Tour future is viewed as finished in any official sense.
