The PGA of America has confirmed that golfers taking part within the LIV Golf League might be eligible to compete within the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship.
The PGA of America stated in an announcement that the choice so as to add LIV to its listing of sanctioned excursions was to make sure “the U.S. Ryder Cup group continues to have entry to the very best American gamers.”
LIV gamers will obtain PGA of America membership, the identical membership earned by gamers on the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and 9 different excursions all over the world.
The announcement is in step with what the PGA of America has performed over the previous two years, together with LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka profitable his third PGA Championship in 2023 and being named to the U.S. Ryder Cup group in Rome.
The assertion learn: “Going ahead, all LIV Golf gamers are eligible to compete within the PGA Championship, as are any U.S. gamers who qualify for the Ryder Cup via factors or are named to the U.S. group as captain.
“That is in step with LIV Golf gamers taking part within the PGA Championship over the previous two years.”
Brooks Koepka performs for Group USA at Ryder Cup in Rome
U.S. golfers residing within the LIV, together with Bryson DeChambeau and Koepka, might be allowed to compete in subsequent 12 months’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage in the event that they qualify or are dominated out by captain Key. Keegan Bradley chosen.
Bradley, the captain of the US group, has beforehand expressed his willingness to welcome LIV gamers to his group.
“I’ll have the very best 12 gamers at Bethpage, so the PGA of America must determine that out if that is their downside,” he stated.
“I do know it’s important to be a PGA member to play within the Ryder Cup. That is the one stipulation. So, we will make it possible for a few of these guys that we predict is likely to be on the group, we will make it possible for they’re members.”
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