Decision taken by the PGA Board of Directors (US Professional Circuit) By opening the doors of the Ryder Cup to its golfers playing in the LIV (Saudi circuit), it could also bring with it the immediate influence of the DP World Tour (European circuit), allowing its presence in the competition when the United States and Europe face off.
In a statement released by the PGA of American, it was reported that at a meeting of its board of directors it was decided that “LIV golfers will be eligible to ensure that the PGA Championship continues to offer the strongest tour in golf and that the team is a part of the PGA Championship team.” ryder cup usa Access to the best American players will continue.
Until now, players signing up for Crorepati LIV could neither play on the PGA or DP World Tour nor attend the ‘Big Four’ (Augusta Masters, PGA Championship, US Open, British Open). Unless they had won it or were still in the top spots in the world rankings based on points (for which LIV tournaments do not score).
The rider is not in danger
With this, the Americans and Europeans of the LIV could not even go to the Ryder Cup and therefore, for the time being, the recent individual winners of the LIV 2024 circuit, the former world number 1, along with the two ‘greats’, 11 tournaments PGA and 8 European, and the two riders in their showcase, will not be at the 2025 edition in the United States either.
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The decision of the PGA, which has been in talks with the LIV for months to resolve the dispute, allows, for example, the return to the Rider of players such as Bryson DeChambeau or Brooks Koepka, although the latter was in the 2023 edition of Rome, thanks to a ‘period of grace’.
It remains to be seen what DP World will do, since so far it has maintained the ban on European players present in LIV from playing with the rider, unless they pay a fine and play at least four tournaments on the old continent circuit. Something that, for example, the Spanish Jon Rahm does not accept.
The United States has built a great team
Ryder A ‘powerful’ American team, with all its troops, in 2025, played at Bethpage Black in New York and where Europe will have to defend the trophy won in 2023 in Roman Marco Simon, being able to count on its best players, especially Rahm, against a weak European team would certainly not please anyone in the world of golf.
Nor is it true that the best golfers in the world are not present in the main tournaments of the DP World Tour, nor in the ‘major’ tournaments.
The PGA’s decision now opens a door. And it remains to be seen if the DP World Tour will also The glove lifts and, with it, we reach the long-awaited peace in the world of golf.
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