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Both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are included in the PGA Championship 2022, according to Brendan Quinn of The Athletic.
The PGA Championship will be held on May 19-22 at the Southern Hills Championship in Tulsa.
The 46-year-old Woods returned to racing for the Masters in April, shooting a 13-pointer after a 17-month hiatus after a car crash in February 2021 that left him with severe leg injuries.
“To get where I needed to go so far, I had an amazing team that helped me get to this point, and incredible support from – as I mentioned at Tuesday’s press conference, the amount of text and FaceTimes and the calls I got from players “Being close to me all this time meant a lot,” Woods told reporters at the time.
Woods said after the Masters that he plans to play in the July Open at St. Andrews, although he has not yet decided whether to play in the PGA Championship. He hasn’t played since August.
Mickelson, 51, has not played in the Masters in April and has not played since February, when his comments in November to Alan Shipnook of The Fire Pit Collective on the Saudi-backed LIV series made him one of the most controversial figures in the sport.
Mickelson told Shipnuck that he was ready to ignore Saudi Arabia’s records of human rights abuses and “sports laundry” because joining the LIV series would give him leverage over the PGA Tour:
“We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Kashogi and have a terrible experience in human rights. They execute people there for being gay. Knowing all this, why even consider it? Because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the way the PGA Tour works. They managed to cope with the manipulative, coercive tactics with strong hands, because we, the players, had no recourse. Such a nice person [PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan] it looks like unless you have a lever, it will not do what is right. And Saudi money finally gave us that lever. I’m not even sure I want to [the SGL] to succeed, but only the idea of it allows us to do things with [PGA] Tour. “
Mickelson later apologized, saying his comments were “reckless.” I insulted people and I deeply regret my choice of words. “
His last tournament was the Saudi International Tournament in February.
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