The PGA of America has confirmed that golfers who play within the LIV Golf League can be eligible for the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship going ahead.
In a press release, the PGA of America has mentioned the choice so as to add LIV to its checklist of authorised excursions had been made to make sure that the “US Ryder Cup team continue to have access to the best American players.”
LIV gamers can be provided 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 performed over the previous two years, together with in 2023 when LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka gained the PGA Championship for the third time and was then picked for the US Ryder Cup crew 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 crew 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 – can be permitted to function 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 mentioned.
“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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