Gamers signed to the LIV Golf circuit shall be allowed to participate within the PGA Championship and be a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup staff, the PGA of America introduced Thursday.
“To make sure the PGA Championship will proceed to ship the strongest subject in golf and the U.S. Ryder Cup staff will proceed to have entry to the most effective American gamers, the PGA of America board has decided that LIV Golf gamers shall be eligible for each,” the group mentioned in a press release posted to social media.
“Going ahead, all LIV Golf gamers are eligible for the PGA Championship and any American participant who qualifies for the Ryder Cup on factors or is added to the U.S. staff as a captain’s choose is eligible to compete,” the PGA of America mentioned. “That is in step with LIV Golf gamers competing within the PGA Championship the previous two years.”
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A kind of gamers, Brooks Koepka, was on the 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup staff resulting from a grace interval that allowed him to briefly retain his PGA of America membership regardless of signing on with LIV. Bryson DeChambeau, winner of the 2024 U.S. Open, is sitting in third place on the 2025 Ryder Cup factors listing, ok to make him an computerized qualifier.
The subsequent PGA Championship is scheduled for Could 15-18 on the Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte, N.C. The US will host the 2025 Ryder Cup on the Bethpage Black Course on New York’s Lengthy Island subsequent September.
LIV Golf members from Europe should play in 4 DP World Tour occasions in a single season as a baseline eligibility for his or her Ryder Cup staff.