The US Golf Association will examine creating a path for LIV Golf players into the US Open in the next off-season, USGA chief executive officer Mike Whan said on Wednesday.”We’re going to talk about it this off-season, whether or not there needs to be a path to somebody or somebodies that are performing really well on LIV that can get a chance to play in that way,” Whan said.
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Spain’sSergioGarcia,apastMasterswinner,isamong12LIVGolfplayersinthisweek’sUSOpenandmorecouldfollowastheUSGolfAssociationplansanoff-seasondiscussionaboutcreatingaUSOpenpathforLIVGolftalent(JaredC.Tilton)TheUSGolfAssociationwillexaminecreatingapathforLIVGolfplayersintotheUSOpeninthenextoff-season,USGAchiefexecutiveofficerMikeWhansaidonWednesday.
Saudi-backedLIVGolf,theupstartseriesthatdebutedin2022justaheadofthatyear’sUSOpen,has12playersinthefieldof156forthisweek’sUSOpenatPinehurst.
Big-nameplayersdepartedtheUSPGATourfor$25millionpursesandguaranteeddealswithLIVandweresuspendedfromPGAevents,sotheworld’stopplayersonlycompeteatmajor
