The PGA of America has confirmed that golfers who play within the LIV Golf League will likely be eligible for the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship going ahead.
In an announcement, the PGA of America has stated the choice so as to add LIV to its checklist of accredited excursions had been made to make sure that the “US Ryder Cup team continue to have access to the best American players.”
LIV gamers will likely be supplied membership into the PGA of America, the identical membership granted to PGA Tour gamers, these on the DP World Tour and 9 different circuits around the globe.
The announcement is according to what the PGA of America has accomplished over the previous two years, together with in 2023 when LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka received the PGA Championship for the third time and was then picked for the US Ryder Cup workforce in Rome.
The assertion learn: “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 workforce as a captain’s decide is eligible to compete.
“This is consistent with LIV Golf players competing in the PGA Championship the past two years.”
LIV-based American golfers – equivalent to Bryson DeChambeau and Koepka – will likely be permitted to characteristic in subsequent yr’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage, assuming they qualify or are picked by captain Keegan Bradley.
US skipper Bradley had beforehand indicated a willingness to welcome LIV gamers onto his aspect.
“I’m going to have the best 12 players at Bethpage so the PGA of America need to figure that out, if that’s their problem,” he stated.
“I know you have to be a PGA member to play in the Ryder Cup. That’s the only stipulation. So we’ll make sure if some of those guys that we think might make the team, we’ll make sure that they are a member.”
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