Golf Twitter Reacts to U.S. Open’s Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson Decision

The USGA announced on Tuesday that all golfers, whether or not they are on the PGA Tour still, who qualified for the U.S. Open will be able to compete.

The USGA announced on Tuesday that it will allow all players who qualify for the U.S. Open to participate, even if they have withdrawn from the PGA Tour to join the LIV Golf tour.

Because of this decision, golfers like Dustin Johnson and Sergio García can participate in next week’s major event. Additionally, Phil Mickelson plans to play at the tournament in Brookline, Mass.

These three golfers, along with various other professional golfers, are competing in the first LIV Golf event this week in London, meaning they will have to board a plane right after the event to make it back to the United States. The league has sparked many controversies, including Johnson and Garcia dropping out of the PGA Tour. Mickelson has yet to decide if he will follow suit.

The USGA’s choice to include these golfers despite their recent decisions to focus on the Saudi Arabian league instead of the PGA Tour led to major responses on Twitter from fans and reporters alike. 

Even if fans don’t agree with the idea of LIV Golf, which is funded by the Saudi Arabian government, most fans think that the golfers shouldn’t be barred from competing in events that they qualify for.

This is absolutely the right decision. These golfers qualified for the US Open on their own merit. There is no "but" here...they earned it. You may not like who they joined forces with, but you have to let them play in this. https://t.co/b3KPBYpH4U

— RJ Choppy (@rjchoppy) June 7, 2022

They earned their spots in the US Open and while I strongly disagree with their decisions, they’ve broken no rules. It would be wrong to ban them from a competition they qualified for.

— Ben Coley (@BenColeyGolf) June 7, 2022

Phil Mickelson, who has gone out of his way to demean and undermine the USGA throughout his career, will possibly make his American return next week at the U.S. Open. Cool, cool cool cool

— Joel Beall (@JoelMBeall) June 6, 2022

Most people agree that the press conferences ahead of the U.S. Open will be wild, to say the least.

Next week’s US Open press conferences are going to be epic.

— Amanda Rose (@AmandaGolf59) June 7, 2022

In his statement, Phil says he intends to play in the majors.

A source has told us that he is planning to play next week at The Country Club.

That is truly going to be one of the wildest media circuses in modern golf history.

— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) June 6, 2022

Golf Twitter is alive and smoking hot today … with Tiger Woods #USOpen WD a secondary story to #LIVGolf and this not even a major week #letsgo

— NYPost_Cannizzaro (@MarkCannizzaro) June 7, 2022

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