{"id":935999,"date":"2026-10-21T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935999\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:34:12","slug":"louis-oosthuizen-quits-liv-golf-and-he-has-a-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935999\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Oosthuizen quits LIV Golf (and he has a good reason)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe LIV Golf exodus continues after another of the league\u2019s captains declared his intention to leave\u2026<\/p>\n

Another major champion is calling it a day with LIV Golf. <\/p>\n

The exodus from the league is gathering pace<\/a> after 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen became the second captain to announce he has played his final LIV event.<\/p>\n

Southern Guards skipper Oosthuizen told the South China Morning Post<\/a> ahead of this week\u2019s Link Hong Kong Open that the proposed relaunch of the league in 2027 requires \u201ca lot of international travel for single events\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old added: \u201cI need to arrange my own schedule and look after my body. I want to play near one spot for three weeks at a time, not have all the big traveling for one tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved LIV and the team aspect, but it\u2019s time to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oosthuizen earned over $32million in prize money<\/a> across his five seasons at LIV without registering an individual win, and despite suggesting the lighter schedule was one of the reasons he joined, he now wants to play elsewhere.<\/p>\n

LIV\u2019s next iteration, with the proposed $300 million backing from BC Partners<\/a>, hopes to include a slimmed down 10-event schedule, with purses ranging between $5.5m and $9m.<\/p>\n

Oosthuizen, who possesses 11 DP World Tour wins and one of the game\u2019s most eloquent swings, is likely to target a return to the circuit ahead of the Open\u2019s return to St Andrews, the iconic home of his solitary major win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had some success at majors, but you work and play to have a sniff of that again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m at a different stage of my golfing life [from when I won a major] but it\u2019s pretty sweet when you still get called the Open champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope to get my body and my game in a place next year [to compete for majors]. The Open is at a course I love and where I\u2019ve won. The goal is to get my game as sharp as possible, to have myself ready, then see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oosthuizen joins Jon Rahm and David Puig<\/a> among those to declare his intentions to exit LIV. A swathe of other players are soon set to announce their own decisions to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LIV Golf exodus continues after another of the league\u2019s captains declared his intention to leave\u2026 Another major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-935999","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\/935999","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=935999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}