The PGA of America introduced Thursday that LIV Golf gamers are eligible to compete in each the PGA Championship and U.S. Ryder Cup groups going ahead.
LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka was a part of final yr’s U.S. Ryder Cup group due to a grace interval that allowed him to stay a PGA of America member by 2024, however it was not clear how the physique would additional deal with the divide in skilled golf.
“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 U.S. group as a captain’s choose is eligible to compete,” the PGA of America stated. “That is in step with LIV Golf gamers competing within the PGA Championship the previous two years. Brooks Koepka was a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup group final yr.”
The choice clears the way in which for LIV golfers reminiscent of reigning U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, who’s third on the U.S. factors listing for the 2025 Ryder Cup regardless of being ineligible for PGA Tour occasions the place the vast majority of factors could possibly be earned.
LIV Golf, which is funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, didn’t instantly reply when requested to touch upon the PGA of America’s resolution.
The European Ryder Cup group has a pathway in place for these with LIV Golf to be eligible for the biennial match-play occasion, with the primary standards being they have to play no less than 4 occasions on the Europe-based DP World Tour per yr.
As well as, these gamers should additionally pay fines for competing in tournaments on the Saudi-funded circuit that conflicted with DP World Tour occasions with out requesting permission from the European-based circuit.
Spaniard Jon Rahm, who was a key participant for Europe within the 2023 Ryder Cup earlier than becoming a member of LIV Golf two months later, intends to play the required European occasions and has appealed the fines that the DP World Tour assessed him.
The 2025 Ryder Cup between the US and Europe will likely be held subsequent September at Bethpage Black in New York.
