{"id":393962,"date":"2026-01-07T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/393962\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:37:10","slug":"pga-tour-winner-rejects-lucrative-offer-from-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/393962\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Winner Rejects Lucrative Offer From LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_y90pm43xd\">LIV Golf has <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/report-pga-tour-winner-new-players-joining-liv-golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly signed two new players<\/a>, including PGA Tour winner Thomas Detry, for this upcoming season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1qcnwdchx\">But the league had hoped to make its biggest splash since bringing on Jon Rahm in December 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q7x6t88cc\"><a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/sources-akshay-bhatia-turns-down-deal-with-liv-golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to GolfChannel.com<\/a>, Akshay Bhatia rejected a lucrative offer from LIV and will remain with the PGA Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark. Sign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xqtmpidul\">Specific financials were not disclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_aqn9lhrnu\">The 23-year-old is ranked No. 46 in the world and is a two-time Tour winner who has made the Tour Championship in each of the last two seasons and has nearly $13 million in career earnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_lkybjgrv6\">Shortly after <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"http:\/\/golfchannel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GolfChannel.com<\/a>\u2019s report, it was revealed that Bhatia was signing with TGL\u2019s Jupiter Links as its official alternate, appearing alongside team member Tiger Woods in a video announcement. Woods is currently <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/tiger-woods-announces-another-back-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recovering from back surgery<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing our official Jupiter Links alternate \ud83c\udf34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ukcr0tq1gQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Ukcr0tq1gQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jupiter Links Golf Club (@JupiterLinksGC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JupiterLinksGC\/status\/2008683088813948968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 6, 2026<\/a>More Golf from Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf has reportedly signed two new players, including PGA Tour winner Thomas Detry, for this upcoming season.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-393962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}