{"id":896272,"date":"2026-10-27T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:52:17","slug":"major-champion-graeme-mcdowell-quits-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896272\/","title":{"rendered":"Major champion Graeme McDowell quits LIV Golf\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe player exodus continues as another veteran leaves LIV Golf\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The dominoes keep on falling at LIV Golf. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Tyrrell Hatton, Ian Poulter, Louis Oosthuizen, Lucas Herbert and Tom McKibbin were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-players-staying-and-leaving\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">among the headline names to declare themselves out of the league\u2019s next chapter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And now another of LIV\u2019s most recognisable veterans has called it quits ahead of LIV 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Graeme McDowell, who has played on LIV since the league\u2019s first event at Centurion four summers ago, has publicly announced his own decision to move on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve decided not to pursue LIV 2.0,\u201d the 2010 US Open champion wrote on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Graeme_McDowell\/status\/2114757589598920972\" rel=\"nofollow\"> X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the opportunity I\u2019ve had over the last four years and want to thank everyone who has been part of that journey. I look forward to the next chapter in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that next chapter will be the DP World Tour. <\/p>\n<p>McDowell has revealed this year that he has been in talks with Wentworth officials with a view to recovering his membership ahead of the 2027 season. He will be able to return to his former domain on a  Legends category exemption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-prize-money-total-earnings-2022-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McDowell made more than $18million in prize money<\/a> during his time with LIV, despite not winning an individual event. <\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old has played in four Ryder Cups, but is currently ineligible to represent Team Europe as captain or as vice-captain after he relinquished his DP World Tour membership following his LIV move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The player exodus continues as another veteran leaves LIV Golf\u2026 The dominoes keep on falling at LIV Golf.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-896272","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\/896272","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=896272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}