{"id":436691,"date":"2026-01-29T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:54:08","slug":"patrick-reed-quits-rebel-liv-golf-tour-in-latest-blow-to-saudi-backed-breakaway-liv-golf-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436691\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed quits rebel LIV Golf tour in latest blow to Saudi-backed breakaway | LIV Golf Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Reed has delivered the \u00adlatest high-profile blow to LIV Golf<\/a> by announcing he will leave the circuit before the start of its 2026 season.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old American former Masters champion joins Brooks Koepka<\/a> by instead focusing on the PGA Tour. Reed will spend his immediate time on the DP World Tour, where he won the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday. Reed tees up in Bahrain from Thursday.<\/p>\n

It would now be only natural for LIV to be anxious about talent drain which once ran in their favour.<\/p>\n

At Reed\u2019s post-tournament media conference in Dubai he surprisingly revealed he had not yet committed to LIV for this year. He joined the Saudi Arabian\u2011backed tour in 2022 in a deal worth tens of millions of dollars. In a statement posted on Wednesday, the 2018 Masters winner explained his switch.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful thought and consideration, my family and I have decided that I will no longer compete on the LIV Golf Tour,\u201d Reed said. \u201cI am excited to announce that I\u00a0am returning to the PGA Tour<\/a> as a past champion member for the 2027\u00a0season and am eligible to begin\u00a0competing in PGA Tour events later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will continue to compete and play as an honorary lifetime \u00admember on the DP World Tour, which is \u00adsomething that I am truly honored and excited to do. I\u2019m a traditionalist at heart, and I was born to play on the\u00a0PGA Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

In its own statement, the PGA Tour said: \u201cPatrick Reed has informed the\u00a0PGA Tour of his desire to return. A nine-time PGA Tour \u00adwinner, he is seeking reinstatement of his PGA\u00a0Tour membership for the 2027 season, playing out of the past \u00adchampion category.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of resigning his membership in 2022 prior to violating any PGA Tour regulations, Patrick is \u00adeligible to compete on the PGA\u00a0Tour as a non-member beginning on 25\u00a0August 2026. He may also pursue improved PGA Tour status via the DP\u00a0World Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The top 10 players on the DP World Tour\u2019s order of merit, not already exempt, earn PGA Tour cards this year. Koepka was reinstated immediately on the PGA Tour via criteria which applied to major winners from\u00a02022 onwards.<\/p>\n

The exits of Koepka and Reed leave Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith as the most significant \u00adplayers on LIV. Attention will turn naturally towards if or when that trio seek to beat a path back towards the PGA\u00a0Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed has delivered the \u00adlatest high-profile blow to LIV Golf by announcing he will leave the circuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-436691","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\/436691","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=436691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}