{"id":393586,"date":"2026-01-07T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393586\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:25:23","slug":"two-time-pga-tour-winner-rejects-lucrative-liv-golf-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393586\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time PGA Tour Winner Rejects ‘Lucrative’ LIV Golf Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akshay Bhatia has turned down a “lucrative offer” to join LIV Golf, according to the Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hoggard states “multiple sources” confirmed the news to GolfChannel.com, with the two-time PGA Tour winner opting to stay put on the US circuit.<\/p>\n

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Bhatia, 23, is one of the Tour’s brightest prospects with wins at the 2023 Barracuda Championship and 2024 Valero Texas Open.<\/p>\n

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Following the report of the declined LIV offer, it was then confirmed the left-hander had joined Tiger<\/a> Woods’ Jupiter Links TGL team as an alternate. He will likely get a number of opportunities to compete for the Florida side in the SoFi Center this winter with Woods currently out injured.<\/p>\n

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Bhatia currently ranks 46th in the world<\/p>\n

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As well as the 15-time Major winner, Bhatia joins Tom Kim, Max Homa<\/a> and Kevin Kisner on the franchise.<\/p>\n

Bhatia’s signing was announced on the same day the TGL confirmed a women’s league<\/a> was on the way, with the WTGL beginning in winter 2026\/27.<\/p>\n

It is the latest blow to LIV Golf this off-season following reports of Si Woo Kim declining an offer to join<\/a> and the high-profile departure of five-time Major champion Brooks Koepka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The league has announced two new signings in Laurie Canter and Victor Perez, with The Times reporting Thomas Detry and Elvis Smylie are set to join<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott Vincent and Yosuke Asaji are two other new faces after earning cards via the International Series Rankings<\/a>, with three more players set to join at this weekend’s LIV Golf Promotions event in Florida.<\/p>\n

The 2026 LIV Golf season<\/a> begins in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akshay Bhatia has turned down a “lucrative offer” to join LIV Golf, according to the Golf Channel’s Rex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-393586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}