{"id":694346,"date":"2026-05-25T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:00:10","slug":"danny-lee-dropped-by-liv-golf-team-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694346\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Lee dropped by LIV Golf team for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">He has been replaced by Korean Do-Yeob Mun, the current KPGA Tour points leader. The roster change comes on the eve of this week\u2019s event in South Korea and means the team will have four Koreans, although Lee was born in Incheon before moving to Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Lee can continue to play the remaining six events as a wildcard but would need to finish in the top 34 to secure a spot for next season, should LIV Golf continue in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">According to National Club Golfer magazine, Lee has earned US$11,380,407 ($19,379,296) since he joined the rebel golf league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">The future of LIV Golf remains up in the air following last month\u2019s announcement that Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/golf\/saudi-arabia-wealth-fund-to-stop-funding-liv-golf-after-2026-season\/NTVLERMF5BDSPPZJRLHPLVCUCU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/golf\/saudi-arabia-wealth-fund-to-stop-funding-liv-golf-after-2026-season\/NTVLERMF5BDSPPZJRLHPLVCUCU\/\">stop financing the league<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has been replaced by Korean Do-Yeob Mun, the current KPGA Tour points leader. The roster change comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[9490,64,63,21677,7504,25725,10970,70571,1926,580,257540,755,38940,338606,8835,12440,4755,6410,1787,281129,19791,161,85,3018,159412,1050],"class_list":["post-694346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-after","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-being","tag-by","tag-called","tag-club","tag-danny","tag-dropped","tag-for","tag-formerly","tag-golf","tag-golfer","tag-ironheads","tag-kiwi","tag-korean","tag-lee","tag-liv","tag-of","tag-remainder","tag-rest","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-wildcard","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694346","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=694346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}