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The PGA of America announced on Thursday that LIV Golf players are eligible to compete in the PGA Championship and participate on U.S. Ryder Cup teams, according to Reuters (via ESPN).
“Going forward, all LIV Golf players are eligible for the PGA Championship and any American player who qualifies for the Ryder Cup on points or is added to the U.S. team as a captain’s pick is eligible to compete,” the PGA of America said. “This is consistent with LIV Golf players competing in the PGA Championship the past two years.”
Brooks Koepka of LIV Golf was previously a member of the 2023 Ryder Cup team due to a grace period that allowed him to retain PGA of America membership through 2024.
Koepka was able to participate on the team largely due to his victory at the 2023 PGA Championship, becoming the first LIV Golf player to win a major championship.
LIV members were previously allowed to participate in the PGA Championship and Ryder Cup due to a grace period that ran through June 2024, with the PGA of America resolving the issue on Thursday after the period ended (via Reuters).
“It’s more of a cleanup,” PGA of America interim CEO Kerry Haigh explained, per NBC Sports’ Rex Hoggard. “We’ve added the LIV tour to the list of tours that are eligible towards A-3 membership, which all [PGA] Tour members are eligible for. The LIV players had previously been [PGA of America] members but had we not done this they would have had to go through more requirements which no other tour members are asked to do.”
This allows a clearer path for golfers such as Bryson DeChambeau, who ranks No. 3 on the points list for the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup team, to participate.
European LIV Golf players will still need to be members of the DP World Tour in order to make their respective Ryder Cup teams, meaning that they’re still subject to fines and suspensions that were issued after joining LIV.
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced a framework agreement to form an alliance in June 2023, although the merger is still being finalized more than a year later.
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Publish date : 2024-09-19 08:09:00
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