Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, coming off his second LIV Golf victory of the 12 months final weekend, has acquired a particular invitation to Could’s PGA Championship, in response to a number of experiences on Monday.
Niemann advised golfwrx.com on Monday in regards to the entry, which was confirmed by Sports activities Illustrated and The Golf Channel.
It’s the newest signal of a softening in direction of LIV Golf gamers from the game’s 4 majors — which is certain to frustrate the PGA Tour, which has blacklisted its members from that includes at any of its occasions.
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Niemann now has locations in three of the 12 months’s 4 majors, having acquired a particular invitation final month to the Masters, and qualifying for the British Open by successful final December’s Australian Open.
Niemann is the one participant since LIV Golf’s creation to obtain particular invitations to the majors in any case 4 refused to problem any in 2022 and 2023.
The one different LIV Golf gamers to characteristic on the majors had exemptions by way of their earlier championship wins, or world rating.
These world rankings proceed to slip, nevertheless, with the OWGR nonetheless refusing to award factors to LIV Golf occasions.
It implies that Niemann, regardless of being one of many world’s most in-form golfers in 2024, is now ranked 76th.
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That absurdity was pointed to by Niemann after he received final weekend’s occasion in Jeddah, and he was requested about being one of many favourites to win a significant this 12 months.
“How is that potential if I’m, like, No.100 on this planet?”
This 12 months’s PGA Championship will likely be performed at Valhalla Golf Membership in Louisville, Kentucky, on Could 16-19.
American Brooks Koepka received final 12 months’s PGA Championship, turning into the primary energetic LIV Golf participant to seize a significant title together with his triumph at Oak Hill.
LIV has different current main winners, together with reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm of Spain and 2022 British Open champion Cameron Smith of Australia.
Niemann received two PGA Tour titles earlier than departing for the Saudi-backed upstart sequence. This 12 months, the Chilean received LIV titles final month at Mayakoba and on Sunday at Jeddah.