{"id":269459,"date":"2025-11-18T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:05:09","slug":"liv-golf-henrik-stenson-plans-return-to-dp-world-tour-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269459\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf: Henrik Stenson plans return to DP World Tour in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stenson, who won on his LIV debut in 2022, finished 49th in the individual standings and was relegated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 56-player LIV circuit is imposing relegation as it hopes to be accredited by the Official World Golf Ranking, which will help its players qualify for the four major championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stenson appears to favour a return to the DP World Tour next season rather than try to play his way back on to the main LIV circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over the course of a career, you&#8217;re going to have good years, you&#8217;re going to have bad years &#8211; it&#8217;s part of professional sport,&#8221; said Stenson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/65571364\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigned from the DP World Tour<\/a> in 2023 &#8211; a week after Poulter, Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Richard Bland &#8211; after being sanctioned for breaking rules when joining LIV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tour issued bans of up to eight events and fines up to \u00a3100,000 for each tournament regulation breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, England&#8217;s Laurie Canter has become the first player to regain his eligibility on the PGA Tour after defecting to LIV. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old&#8217;s fine season on the DP World Tour allowed him to finish second in the PGA Tour eligibility rankings via the Race to Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stenson, who won on his LIV debut in 2022, finished 49th in the individual standings and was relegated.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-269459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}