Well, this is a turn of events.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Less than a week ago, Laurie Canter became the first former LIV player to earn a PGA Tour card. Now, according to the Sports Business Journal<\/a>, he\u2019s headed back to LIV.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 36-year-old Englishman played on LIV during the league\u2019s first three seasons (2022-2024). Competing mostly on the DP World Tour since then, he finished in the top 10 of the DPWT\u2019s season-long standings in 2025, an achievement that earns players PGA Tour status for the following year, if not already exempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark<\/p>\n This past March, Canter became the first ex-LIV player to play a non-co-sanctioned PGA Tour event, when he qualified for the Players Championship<\/a> by sqeeking inside the top 50 of the world rankings. He was able to to do so because it had been a year since his last start on LIV.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think anyone who plays golf would [want to be a PGA Tour member],\u201d Canter told Golf Channel at the Players<\/a>. \u201cYou look at this week, the event last week I watched, to play those signature events, where they\u2019re going. If you could engineer [a schedule], play well enough to get your world ranking, then you\u2019ve got those signature events and majors, what a year that is as a golfer to play those venues with those players for that amount of money, it\u2019s incredible to me.\u201d<\/p>\n It is unclear what LIV team Canter will be a member of. Henrik Stenson, Andy Ogletree, and Mito Pereira were some of the names to be relegated from the Saudi-backed circuit after last season.<\/p>\n