LIV Golf gamers will likely be eligible for the Ryder Cup and the PGA Championship, the PGA of America introduced Thursday in a transfer made to make sure entry to high expertise.
Because the early days of the upstart Saudi-backed sequence, the US PGA Tour has banned LIV gamers from competing in its occasions, making it onerous for LIV gamers to earn world rating factors and qualify for majors.
However PGA and LIV gamers have confronted one another at main tournaments in recent times, with LIV’s Brooks Koepka profitable final yr’s PGA Championship for his fifth main crown and receiving a captain’s decide place on final yr’s US Ryder Cup crew.
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“To make sure the PGA Championship will proceed to ship the strongest area in golf and that the US Ryder Cup crew will proceed to have entry to the perfect American gamers, the PGA of America board has decided that LIV Golf gamers will likely be eligible for each,” the PGA of America assertion stated.
“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 US crew as a captain’s decide is eligible to compete.”
The PGA of America choice solidifies spots in occasions though a number of LIV gamers had been granted particular invites to sure majors in previous seasons and Koepka was welcomed into the Ryder Cup squad.
Some LIV gamers have been in a position to compete in majors thanks largely to wins earlier than LIV started, many competing as previous winners of particular majors.
The transfer exhibits tensions might be easing in golf’s civil warfare at the same time as talks proceed between Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, LIV’s backers, and the PGA Tour a couple of merger settlement, negotiations which have stretched nicely past their authentic deadline of the top of final yr.
Talks had been performed final week in New York however among the many sticking factors stays how you can punish former PGA gamers who defected to LIV ought to they return and what LIV’s future may turn into.