{"id":475535,"date":"2026-02-12T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475535\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:43:12","slug":"tabuena-to-play-as-wild-card-after-kim-signed-by-4aces-gc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475535\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabuena to play as Wild Card after Kim signed by 4Aces GC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miguel Tabuena<\/a> has made history after being confirmed as the first player from the Philippines to earn full-time status on the LIV Golf League roster for the 2026 season, following a standout rise through The International Series<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old will compete throughout the season as a Wild Card, beginning this week at LIV Golf Adelaide<\/a>, held at The Grange Golf Club from 12\u201315 February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tabuena\u2019s journey reached a turning point with a breakthrough victory at the International Series Philippines presented by BingoPlus last October, which propelled him to a third-place finish in the season Rankings. After making a successful debut as a substitute for 4Aces GC<\/a> in Riyadh last week, his pathway from The International Series to the LIV Golf League is now complete as he officially joins the league full-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really huge for me, my goal last year was to win an International Series event, and I did it,” Tabuena said. “That win opened up so many opportunities, including playing bigger events like the Saudi International, and it also gave me a real chance to push for promotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis opportunity also proves that The International Series is a real pathway to LIV Golf. I didn\u2019t earn the automatic spot straight away, but I played well across the season, and the LIV team saw that. It shows that if you compete on the Asian Tour and perform in The International Series, doors can open, even for players coming through Q School.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The four-time Asian Tour winner will join a growing crop of International Series and top performers from the Asian Tour who have earned full-time LIV Golf cards for 2026, including Scott Vincent<\/a>, Yosuke Asaji<\/a>, Richard Lee<\/a> and Bj\u00f6rn Hellgren<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miguel Tabuena has made history after being confirmed as the first player from the Philippines to earn full-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-475535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475535","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=475535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}