CONFIRMED: Phil Mickelson names his 2023 LIV Golf League side

Phil Mickelson has named his Hy Flyers GC side that will compete in the 2023 LIV Golf League. 

Brendan Steele was confirmed as the latest player to bolt from the PGA Tour to the Saudi-backed circuit. 

Mickelson has also named the former U.S. Amateur champion James Piot in his team. American Cameron Tringale retains his place in the side.

Piot, 24, and Steele, 39, replace Matthew Wolff and the Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, who has jumped over to Martin Kaymer's Cleeks GC. 

The $405m season gets underway in Mexico at El Camaleón Golf Course over 24-26 February. 

The news comes as:

• Hudson Swafford has confirmed he is likely to miss the entire season through injury
• Steele's previous comments about having 'no interest' in joining LIV have resurfaced

Former Ryder Cup star Thomas Pieters is expected to be announced as a LIV player shortly. It is not known which side he is joining. 

Kevin Na and Louis Oosthuizen are still yet to name the players in their sides. 

If rumours are true that Pieters is to sign, he would be the highest-ranked player to join LIV in the off-season. 

Pieters, 31, is a six-time winner on the European-based DP World Tour.

The Belgian recently expressed dismay at not being invited to Tiger Woods' PGA Tour event. 

LIV were expected to name their entire roster for 2023 last week as Woods, 47, played for the first time in seven months. 

Whilst LIV Golf now boast a number of major winners in their ranks, it is fair to say the fledgling circuit would've liked another 'marquee' signing. 

 

 

 

 

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Some fans on social media felt Mickelson's Hy Flyers GC team was easily 'the worst side' in LIV Golf. 

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Scroll down to see all the LIV Golf teams for the 2023 season:

4 Aces GC

• Dustin Johnson
• Peter Uihlein 
• Patrick Reed
• Pat Perez

Crushers GC

• Bryson DeChambeau
• Paul Casey
• Charles Howell III
• Anirban Lahiri

Fireballs GC

• Sergio Garcia
• Abraham Ancer
• Carlos Ortiz
• Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra

Cleeks GC

• Martin Kaymer
• Graeme McDowell
• Bernd Wiesberger
• Richard Bland

Hy Flyers: 

• Phil Mickelson
• James Piot
• Brendan Steele
• Cameron Tringale

Majesticks GC

• Ian Poulter
• Henrik Stenson
• Lee Westwood
• Sam Horsfield

Ripper GC

• Cameron Smith
• Marc Leishman
• Matt Jones
• Wade Ormsby 

Smash GC

• Brooks Koepka
• Chase Koepka
• Jason Kokrak
• Matthew Wolff

Stinger GC

• Louis Oosthuizen
• TBC

Iron Heads

• Kevin Na
• TBC

Torque GC

• Joaquin Niemann
• Sebastian Munoz
• Mito Pereira
• David Puig

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