The three spaces in the LIV Golf field for this week’s tournament in Portland are set to be filled on Monday with three new signings.
bunkered.co.uk understands that Carlos Ortiz, Matthew Wolff and Eugenio Chacarra will be unveiled as the latest names to defect to the Saudi-funded circuit and will feature in its second $25m event which gets under way at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club on Thursday.
Ortiz, 31, won the 2020 Houston Open on the PGA Tour but has seen his world ranking slip to 115th having started the year in 51st. He will join compatriot Abraham Ancer in the increasingly impressive LIV roster.
Likewise, Wolff, 23, has one PGA Tour victory to his name: the 3M Open, which he won in 2019 playing on a sponsor’s exemption a matter of weeks after he turned professional.
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The following year, the strange-swinging American ended up in a tie for fourth at the COVID-delayed US PGA. He finished runner-up to Bryson DeChambeau in the US Open a month later.
Like Ortiz, however, he has endured a tough time of late, missing seven cuts in 13 PGA Tour appearances in 2022.
Chacarra is arguably the most intriguing of the new signings. Ranked second on the men’s World Amateur Golf Rankings as recently as last week, he has forfeited his amateur status to turn pro and commit his future to LIV.
Expecting Carlos Ortiz to be confirmed as a LIV golfer tomorrow. The world No.115 won the 2020 Houston Open and will join compatriot Abraham Ancer on the Saudi-funded circuit.
As widely reported, Eugenio Chacarra is also joining LIV,…
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