For the last four seasons, LIV Golf has served, in part, as the greatest late-career victory lap in sports history. Fortysomething golf legends whose best days came in the late 2000s and early 2010s earned tens of millions for three days\u2019 worth of work a dozen or so times a year, regardless of how well they performed.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s a new era in LIV Golf, and that means the avalanche of cash without conditions is ending. With two individual tournaments remaining, including this weekend\u2019s Chicago event, some notable names are right on LIV\u2019s cut line \u2026 and this year, LIV Golf apparently really, really plans to cut them loose.<\/p>\n
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[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season<\/a>]<\/p>\n The LIV Golf tour includes 56 players, and at the end of the season, anyone ranked below 48th is \u201crelegated.\u201d (That\u2019s LIV\u2019s term, although unlike in, say, English Premier League soccer, there\u2019s no lower LIV tour for \u201crelegated\u201d players.) Relegated players will lose their full-time slot for the 2026 season, though they will have the opportunity to play their way back onto the tour.<\/p>\n It all sounds properly meritocratic, unlike the no-cut format of LIV\u2019s weekly events. But last year, Bubba Watson and Branden Grace both ended the season below the cut line<\/a> \u2026 and yet somehow managed to stay on rosters for this season. Both are safe this season because of some top-5 finishes, but the fact that they\u2019re still in the mix at all given the supposed finality of the \u201ccut zone\u201d is enough to raise questions.<\/p>\n