LIV Golf will enable participant trades by a switch window for the 2024 season, the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit introduced on Wednesday.
Within the league that includes 12 groups, through the low season, groups can commerce gamers from their present rosters, offering each groups approve, and there may even be a mid-season buying and selling window.
“The league has launched the game’s first-ever switch window with participant motion, free company and new workforce rosters in progress as momentum builds for LIV Golf’s second full season teeing off in 2024,” an announcement stated.
Gamers who end within the High 24 Lock Zone of the Particular person Standings on the finish of the common season are assured a possibility to play within the 2024 LIV Golf League.
In Section One, gamers within the High 24 whose contracts expire on the finish of 2023 are supplied a minimal one-year contract extension by their present workforce. A participant who decides to not settle for the supply will change into a free agent.
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Section Two is the place free company begins, and gamers who completed twenty fifth to forty fourth are additionally free brokers, groups are usually not obliged to re-sign free brokers however can as a substitute create an open spot.
The open spot permits a workforce to signal a High 24 participant who opted without cost company, signal any participant within the open zone, signal a participant from one other workforce if each groups agree or signal an exterior participant not a member of any 2023 workforce roster.
In June, a merger was introduced between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV, whose participant roster contains main champions Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Cameron Smith.
In October, LIV Golf’s bid to have its gamers earn rating factors was unanimously rejected by the Official World Golf Rating (OWGR) because of issues concerning the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit’s format.