Phil Mickelson: ‘Fun to Be Back’ at Masters After Self-Exiled Year Away

LIV Golf members Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, and Harold Varner III (all of the United States), walk down the 11th fairway during a practice round prior to the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on April 4, 2023. Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Phil Mickelson has returned to the premises of Augusta National Golf Club one year after taking a leave of absence from the game at the commencement of the LIV Golf controversy.

Mickelson did not play the 2022 Masters, which took place several weeks after he made controversial comments about Saudi Arabia and the then-upstart LIV league to golf writer Alan Shipnuck.