LIV Golf free agency is officially underway.
There are currently 10 openings across the 12 LIV Golf League teams ahead of the 2024 season, while four teams – Bryson DeChambeau’s defending champion Crushers GC, the three-captained Majesticks GC, Bubba Watson’s RangeGoats GC and the South African Stinger GC – all return their full teams.
The players in free agency are those who didn’t re-sign with their current teams from the top 24 in the season-long standings (the Lock Zone), as well as the players with expiring contracts who finished Nos. 25-44 (the Open Zone). Teams can fill their free roster spot by:
- Signing another player in free agency
- Signing an Open Zone player whose contract expired
- Signing or trading for a player contracted with a different team
- Signing an external player who was not a regular member of any 2023 LIV Golf team roster
LIV has minimum criteria for new players “to ensure the competitive integrity of the league,” and teams can’t recruit players under contract with another team without permission from that player’s current team. In other words: no tampering.
The free agency period will end when just four league roster spots remain. These spots are reserved for the winner of The International Series Rankings (Andy Ogletree) and the top three finishers from LIV Golf Promotions.
Here’s how each team currently stands at the start of LIV Golf free agency.
4Aces GC team members Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Peter Uihlein celebrate winning the team competition of the LIV Golf London golf tournament at Centurion Club. (Photo: Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports)
Dustin Johnson and his 2022 team champions have one roster spot available, as Pat Perez is no longer under contract. Perez can still re-sign with the Aces, or Johnson can look elsewhere. Peter Uihlein signed a contract extension after his 12th-place finish in 2023, and Patrick Reed will also return in 2024.
Captain Martin Kaymer of Cleeks GC reacts on the ninth green during Day One of the LIV Golf Invitational – Miami at Trump National Doral Miami on Oct. 20, 2023 in Doral, Florida. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)
Martin Kaymer’s Cleeks are in desperate need of a new team name as well as two new players, as Bernd Wiesberger and Graeme McDowell (Nos. 41 and 42 in the 2023 standings) are now free agents.
Kaymer finished in a relegation spot but remains exempt as a captain, and Richard Bland has…
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