Next year’s U.S. Open is at Shinnecock. Mickelson finished runner-up at the 2004 U.S. Open at the venerable Long Island links, although his 2018 visit is remembered for hitting a moving ball in protest of the USGA’s set-up.

The 54-year-old Mickelson has started to confront his golfing mortality. Before last week’s tournament at LIV Virginia, Mickelson also acknowledged that this U.S. Open could be a farewell. “There’s a high likelihood that it will be, but I haven’t really thought about it too much,” Mickelson said last week.