{"id":930400,"date":"2026-10-12T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930400\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:46:09","slug":"dp-world-tour-ban-complicates-liv-golfs-growth-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930400\/","title":{"rendered":"DP World Tour ban complicates LIV Golf\u2019s growth plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Players who sign up to LIV Golf next season \u201cwill not be allowed to be members\u201d of the DP World Tour in 2027, according to Laura Scott of BBC.com. The tour said that \u201cplayers must \u2018make a choice\u2019 regarding where they play.\u201d Scott writes it is a \u201csignificantly tougher stance than in recent seasons,\u201d as \u201conly players who are members of the DP World Tour can play for Europe in the Ryder Cup.\u201d In previous years, \u201cconditional releases were struck with some top players\u201d — including Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton — enabling them to play on both the DP World Tour and LIV. However, players will now be \u201casked to disclose which tours they intend to play on for next year, and their answer will be taken into account when deciding on their membership.\u201d While the DP World Tour agreed to grant conditional releases with nine players this past season, it is \u201cunderstood the change for 2027 is predominantly down to LIV offering players equity<\/a>\u201d and a feeling that would be \u201cincompatible with the European tour being a members organisation.\u201d Scott writes it also \u201ccomes at a time when the DP World Tour\u2019s strategic alliance with the PGA Tour<\/a> is being negotiated,\u201d so the move \u201clikely reflects a desire to put itself in the best position possible in those discussions\u201d (BBC.com, 10\/12<\/a>). In London, James Corrigan notes the move \u201cwill surely make joining LIV 2.0 less attractive.\u201d This is a \u201csignificant setback to LIV\u201d as it tries to \u201cpersuade enough players to sign on for 2027\u201d (London TELEGRAPH, 10\/12<\/a>).<\/p>\n

MORE TO COME? GOLF\u2019s Berhow, Zak & Melton wrote Rahm\u2019s departure from LIV Golf 2.0<\/a> is \u201ckind of like a Jenga piece — pulling his block alone doesn\u2019t bring down the whole tower, but pull a few more blocks and things can come crashing down in a hurry.\u201d Zak wrote losing Rahm is \u201cabsolutely massive, even if it was expected.\u201d LIV \u201ccan survive in an extremely trimmed-down derivative form, which it has planned to do for the last few months,\u201d but \u201cit all feels a bit rudderless.\u201d Melton added there is \u201cno chance\u201d LIV can \u201csurvive in terms of being a major player\u201d in the global golf landscape. Without the names LIV is \u201closing, the tour is no different than the Sunshine Tour or Challenge Tour.\u201d Berhow wrote it \u201cwould be a terrible look to bring back Rahm immediately\u201d to the PGA Tour \u201cwith only a few slaps on the wrist.\u201d Zak added PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp \u201cshouldn\u2019t make any exemption for anyone,\u201d as there is \u201ca clear pathway through the DP World Tour.\u201d Melton: \u201cThere should be no special treatment for those who passed up their opportunity to come back in the past. The Tour has proven it can survive without them — and will continue to\u201d (GOLF, 10\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n

IS THE DOOR STILL OPEN? BLOOMBERG NEWS\u2019 Adam Minter wrote the PGA Tour\u2019s one-time return window is closed with no plans to reopen it<\/a>, but that is \u201ca mistake, especially if Rahm wants to return.\u201d With LIV no longer a serious threat, keeping Rahm off the PGA Tour \u201cwould only weaken it.\u201d LIV\u2019s 2022 debut \u201cexploited the weaknesses\u201d in the PGA Tour\u2019s model, and the tour \u201cwas forced to compete.\u201d Purses grew, more money flowed to the biggest stars and players received equity in the PGA Tour\u2019s commercial arm<\/a>. Nonetheless, the tour \u201cwasn\u2019t exactly grateful for the lesson, and the bitterness ran thick.\u201d Minter wrote it would \u201cbe unfair if defectors could simply resume after filling their pockets with LIV\u2019s once-abundant cash.\u201d But there is \u201ca difference between being fair and being punitive, especially when punishment weakens the Tour itself.\u201d Minter noted Rahm is \u201cunlikely to be the Tour\u2019s last test.\u201d Other players could soon be available too, including Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 10\/10<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players who sign up to LIV Golf next season \u201cwill not be allowed to be members\u201d of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,6674,3747,82],"class_list":["post-930400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930400","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=930400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}