Several LIV Golf players have entered DP World Tour Q School as uncertainty over the league’s future continues.

The rampant uncertainty that has enveloped LIV Golf for months has left many of the league’s biggest names and brightest talents pondering their futures, but some players may be ejected regardless.

With LIV’s team finale in Michigan now cancelled in all but an official statement, the league will convene for the final time in 2026 at the Chatham Hills Club in Indianapolis next week. And lost in the existential talk of LIV’s survival hopes in a post-Saudi era is what, in any typical week, would be a hugely consequential week on the fairways. At the start of the season, LIV increased its relegation positions from six to 11 to prove to the Official World Golf ranking board that the league was not a closed shop.

A huge churn of players is almost guaranteed before LIV 2.0 – a reimagined league touted with 10 events and scaled back purses – but the league’s bosses have not indicated that relegation will be chalked off to widen its potential player pool next season. The circumstances are extraordinary but failing to prove its meritocratic pathways would also threaten LIV’s OWGR status.

Michael La Sasso is currently 53rd in the season-long standings, in the Drop Zone, and on the brink of the chop – but is surely a player LIV would ideally like to build around. The 22-year-old was the NCAA champion last year and forfeited a place in the Masters to join Phil Mickelson’s HyFlyers team.

But the swashbuckling American’s first season in the professional ranks has undeniably been a baptism of fire. He has not broken the top-30 in 11 starts and has been unfortunate that his captain Mickelson – who helped persuade La Sasso to join – has only been present at one tournament this season.

When joining LIV, La Sasso rejected the traditional avenues to the elite when sitting third in the PGA Tour University program. Now though, regardless of his LIV future and more challenging routes to the PGA Tour, La Sasso wants to broaden his horizons with playing opportunities elsewhere.

He is one several young LIV players to have signed up to the First Stage of DP World Tour Q School, which begins next month. La Sasso will tee it up from September 8 at the Golf-und Country Club Seddiner See in Germany, one of the 10 sites for the first of the 72-hole stroke play events.

Luis Masaveu, who is also in LIV’s Drop Zone, will tee it up at a qualifier in England after competing on the HotelPlanner Tour in recent weeks. Masaveu be joined by Spanish compatriot and Fireballs GC teammate Josele Ballester, who has already outlined his desire to mix LIV starts next season with the DP World Tour next season. Peter Uilhien, the veteran American, will also be at the same qualifier.

This young trio do not have any previous status on the European circuit, hence their entry at this early juncture. Any player who starts at the first stage and makes the cut in the third and final stage, held in Spain in November, would end up playing 14 rounds – or 252 holes – in pursuit of a tour card.

TG understands multiple other LIV players have inquired about either reviving or acquiring a DP World Tour card next season. Thomas Pieters told us at LIV Golf UK last month that he was willing to fight for his card at Q School if LIV ceases to exist next season.

But those wishing to supplement LIV’s leaner schedule with DP World Tour starts next season have run into some trouble. It emerged this week that the DP World Tour are prepared to resume fining players next season for breaching their conflicting events rules.

This year, nine LIV players, including Jon Rahm, have agreed to conditional releases that enables them to play freely on the league without racking up sanctions from Wentworth HQ, but the same terms are “highly unlikely” to be offered again next season.

The current uncertainty around LIV’s 2027 schedule has shifted the landscape and has emboldened the DP World Tour as the league aims to lock in the investment it requires to remain afloat.