While LIV Golf continues to announce new signings, the list of cast offs, forced to make way for the big name additions, gets ever longer.
Itthipat Buranatanyarat, Shiwan Kim, Adrian Otaegui, Ian Snyman and Blake Windred are the latest to be sidelined – all five played in both previous LIV Golf Series events, but none of them are in the field for event three, LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster, which starts in New Jersey on Thursday.
They make way for the four new signings since the event at Pumpkin Ridge, Portland, won by Branden Grace earlier this month – Paul Casey, Henrik Stenson, Jason Kokrak and Charles Howell III – plus Spanish amateur David Puig, who returns having played the opener at the Centurion Club near London.
LIV events feature a shotgun start, so the maximum field-size would be 54, with three players starting on each hole. The fields are currently limited to 48, with the team element of the competition seeing them split into 12 teams of four. In the regular events, the $25million prizepools are divided into $20million for the individual tournament and $5million for the teams, with the top three teams being paid.
The five players cut from the New Jersey field follows nine players losing their LIV spots after the first event, though Puig has regained his. The eight to be cut after playing in the London event were Oliver Fisher, Viraj Madappa, Andy Ogletree, JC Ritchie, Kevin Yuan, Pablo Larrazabal, TK Chantananuwat and Oliver Bekker, with the likes of Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Abraham Ancer and Pat Perez joining up ready to take their places.
With fines and bans being handed out for players who take part in LIV Golf events, those losing their places are at risk of being left in golfing no man’s land. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan acted quickly to ban LIV players from his events as soon as LIV London got under way, though Ian Poulter was among a group of players to launch a legal challenge, which is still under way, and temporarily at least undo that ban so they could play in the Scottish Open, which was…
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