LIV Golf has completed what is so far its biggest victory in the battle with the PGA and European Tour. The PGA Championship, the only major that had yet to publish its list of exemptions for this 2023, He announced them this Thursday and there is nothing new in them that will prevent the participation of the players assigned to the Saudi super league.
The only new category for this year is the one that will give place to the first three classified in the ranking of the International Federation launched last month, a path designed to give more opportunities, in the words of the organization, to emerging golfers from the Asian Tour, the Japan Golf Tour, the PGA of Australasia and the Sunshine Tour.
As for the rest, they are the usual ones. Among them, those that allow the winners of the other three majors in the last five years to participate, a way of entry for LIVers like Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka or Martin Kaymer (he enters as champion of this same event, which gives permanent exemption).
As for Sergio García, who already knows that for the British Open he will have to go to the final preview, his green jacket dates from 2017, so he would no longer be on that list. His options to go to Oak Hill on May 18 go through trying to return to the top-100 of the ranking through participation in the Asian Tour (LIV follows points), Given that the participants in the 2021 Ryder Cup, which he played, get a ticket but as long as they appear in that cut of the world list.
