Former world number five Poulter was co-captain of the Majesticks team alongside fellow Englishman and Ryder Cup icon Lee Westwood. Westwood’s future plans remain unclear.<\/p>\n
Poulter’s decision to leave comes in the same week as 2010 Open champion Oosthuizen, who captained the Southern Guards GC team and said quitting was the “hardest decision” of his career.<\/p>\n
Last week, two-time major winner Rahm gave up a reported \u00a375m owed to him by LIV after reaching a separation agreement.<\/p>\n
Abraham Ancer and David Puig are also leaving while Sergio Garcia, Thomas Pieters, Tom McKibbin, Laurie Canter and Adrian Meronk appear unlikely to stay with LIV.<\/p>\n
Richard Bland, Cameron Tringale and Brendan Steele are three of the few players to commit to the second phase of the breakaway circuit.<\/p>\n
LIV’s future could hinge on whether it can secure the signature of American superstar Bryson DeChambeau, who ESPN reported earlier this week “remains committed” to the league.<\/p>\n
In his statement, Poulter acknowledged LIV has “clearly divided opinion”, but said he will be “forever proud” to be part of its founding group.<\/p>\n
“Change is never easy and it’s fair to say professional golf has experienced plenty of it over the last few years,” he added.<\/p>\n
“But I’ve always believed that change can create opportunity and ultimately lead to positive outcomes. <\/p>\n
“There will undoubtedly be more changes ahead, but I am confident the game will continue to grow, evolve, and deliver the very best for golf fans around the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world number five Poulter was co-captain of the Majesticks team alongside fellow Englishman and Ryder Cup icon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-892106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892106","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=892106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}