{"id":331216,"date":"2025-12-06T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:06:10","slug":"are-liv-golf-players-about-to-be-banned-from-the-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331216\/","title":{"rendered":"Are LIV Golf players about to be banned from the Ryder Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWith a long-awaited ruling due, LIV players may be about to see their route to majors and the Ryder Cup vanish overnight.<\/p>\n

David Puig\u2019s recent win at the Australian PGA Championship<\/a> wasn\u2019t just the biggest moment of his young career \u2013 it also reignited one of golf\u2019s most uncomfortable debates: how much longer can LIV players continue dipping into DP World Tour events when it suits them? And, more importantly, is that privilege about to disappear altogether?<\/p>\n

Inside the DP World Tour, the feeling is that the clock is ticking. Several prominent European voices believe the long-running legal case that decides whether LIV players can keep DP World Tour membership is edging towards a decisive ruling \u2013 one that could reshape the futures of Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Puig, and many others.<\/p>\n

And the impact of that ruling goes far beyond entry to mid-level DP World Tour events. Playing on the DP World Tour gives LIV players Official World Golf Ranking points, which helps them get into majors, and having DP World Tour membership is fundamental to their Ryder Cup eligibility. Lose that membership, and LIV players suddenly find themselves in a Ryder Cup no man\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

For someone like Rahm, who has made no secret of how much the Ryder Cup means to him, that\u2019s a career-altering consequence.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Chipping Forecast<\/a> podcast, broadcaster Andrew Cotter highlighted how open the door is for LIV players right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we know now, playing on LIV is very compatible with playing on the European Tour,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, Puig has committed himself to full membership of the European Tour but also retained his LIV Golf contract for 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter believes that situation is skewed in favor of those plying their trade on LIV Golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a fundamental inequality at the heart of this game,\u201d he said. \u201cThe rank-and-file DP World Tour players can\u2019t go and play on LIV. It\u2019s not fair. It\u2019s fundamentally not fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cPuig has played 10 events that count on the world rankings. He is trying to force his way into a position where he can qualify for majors, while taking the money from a tour that really doesn\u2019t give you enough of a route into those majors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cotter agreed, calling it \u201ca door that opens one way but not the other\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

DP World Tour player and podcast co-host Eddie Pepperell added that while he and his peers have tolerated the situation for longer than many expected they\u2019d have to, patience is wearing thin \u2013 especially when LIV players get spots in limited-field European events.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers on the DP World Tour can put that aside for long enough. I think we have done now for a while,\u201d he said, referencing the likes of LIV players Adrian Meronk, Tom McKibbin, and Victor Perez \u2013 who originally entered before withdrawing \u2013 all being eligible to tee it up in this week\u2019s Nedbank Golf Challenge<\/a>, despite its limited field and bumper prize pot.<\/p>\n

Then came the real bombshell. Pepperell revealed that the long-discussed case that will define the future of the LIV Golf and DP World Tour crossover could finally be done and dusted next spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of April, it may be the case, from what I\u2019ve heard, that the Tour will have some clarity on that,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the ruling goes in the Tour\u2019s favor, then these guys will very likely not be playing on the DP World Tour for much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that has enormous implications for the Ryder Cup. If the ruling strips LIV players of their DP World Tour membership, their route into the team disappears overnight. No automatic qualifying. No captain\u2019s picks. Nothing.<\/p>\n

Realistically, there\u2019s little chance that Team Europe would allow a scenario in which they can\u2019t have Rahm and Hatton on the team, but it would take some very creative rejigging of their own rules to maintain their eligibility.<\/p>\n

Puig\u2019s win was his breakthrough moment, but in a few months\u2019 time, it might be remembered as something else entirely: the last chapter before LIV players find themselves shut out of Europe \u2013 and shut out of the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a long-awaited ruling due, LIV players may be about to see their route to majors and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-331216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}