Soon after months of speculation, leaks and guesses, the industry for the initial celebration for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series has been announced by the organizer.
The discipline for the June 9-11 function is headlined by one particular participant — Dustin Johnson — who can be viewed as a blockbuster get for Greg Norman, the encounter of the sequence, and by one particular player — Phil Mickelson — who wasn’t on the industry record.
Other than Johnson, a Masters and U.S. Open up champion, the players in the 48-individual field are not viewed as a surprise.
Amid them are Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Kevin Na, Lee Westwood, Louis Oosthuizen, Martin Kaymer, Charl Schwartzel, Graeme McDowell and Talor Gooch.
The announcement is the following phase in a superior-stakes recreation of “chicken” involving the gamers and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, who has threatened any Tour gamers who participate in the LIV collection with sanctions that could contain suspension from PGA Tour events.
Johnson, 37, is one particular of two major-20 ranked players, in the environment (along with Oosthuizen) established to take part in the 54-hole event, which will be performed at the Centurion Golf Club outdoors of London. Sixteen of the best 100-ranked players in the globe have been declared as playing.
Mickelson, who has been absent from golf considering the fact that February, was anticipated by lots of to be involved, but he was not on the record.
The 51-yr-outdated Mickelson, a member of the Globe Golf Corridor of Fame, rocked the golfing entire world with explosive comments about the PGA Tour and also the Saudi regime that is backing the new circuit. The fallout was so severe that Mickelson stepped away from competitors.
In all, there ended up 42 gamers announced, leaving area for Mickelson and 5 gamers who will qualify by using an Global Series celebration being performed this 7 days in London.
Johnson’s involvement came as a surprise for the reason that he claimed in February he would not be component of the Saudi endeavor.
The tournament will have a purse of $25 million, with $20 million paid out to the particular person part of the party and $4 million heading to the winner.
Johnson was questioned about LIV Golf two weeks in the past at the PGA Championship and reported: “I consider golfing is in a good place, and I feel what they’re carrying out … could possibly be very good for the activity of golf. I’m energized to see what occurs right here in a couple of months.’’
It has not been announced however, but it’s predicted that more substantial-identify players these as Johnson and Garcia will be acquiring large visual appeal costs or even contracts to compete in a specified quantity of functions on best of the prize revenue.
Johnson’s agent, David Winkle, issued a statement Tuesday evening that claimed: “Dustin has been contemplating this option off-and-on for the previous few of many years. In the long run, he decided it was in his and his family’s finest curiosity to go after it. Dustin has hardly ever experienced any situation with the PGA Tour and is grateful for all it has presented him, but in the finish felt this was also powerful to go up.”
Johnson also has an endorsement with RBC, the Canadian monetary companies corporation, and to perform in the LIV function, he will pass up the RBC Canadian Open up — however he is continue to stated as becoming in that field.
Other gamers who have joined the subject include American Hudson Swafford, Australian Matt Jones and South African Branden Grace. Previous U.S. Amateur champions Peter Uihlein and Andy Ogletree are entered, as are three present amateurs: James Piot, the 2021 U.S. Beginner winner, David Puig and Thailand’s Ratchanon Chantananuwat, who earlier this year at age 15 grew to become the youngest participant to acquire an Official World Golf Position function at the Rely on Golfing Asian Combined Cup.
The industry of 48 will be completed by five players who will qualify centered on their finishes at this week’s Intercontinental Series occasion in England that is sanctioned by the Asian Tour as portion of an agreement with LIV Golf Investments.
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