Despite featuring in just one Major championship throughout 2024, Abraham Ancer remains “happy” with his decision to join LIV Golf, as the 33-year-old remains hopeful the League will receive Major exemptions going in to 2025.
Last season, there was reason to think that the men’s professional game was, perhaps, becoming more united, with one shred of evidence being shown in the Majors.
At The Masters, for example, LIV’s Joaquin Niemann earned a special invite to Augusta National, whilst various players from the circuit were given invitations into the PGA Championship.
Talor Gooch was one of the LIV players to receive a special invite into the PGA Championship
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However, as of writing, there are still no pathways for those on the LIV Golf League to make it into the Major championships, despite the League possessing a number of the game’s biggest names.
Kevin Na has voiced his approval for LIV to receive Major exemptions, with Ancer remaining “hopeful” that changes will also occur in future months.
Speaking in an interview with Golf Monthly, Ancer stated: “We will find out if anything changes (regarding Major exemptions). Do we want to play the Majors? Of course we do. So, hopefully something happens and there’s a bit of a path. I feel like there’s a bunch of (LIV) players who have a chance to win a Major, but we’ll see what happens.”
Playing under the Fireballs GC banner, the team’s Captain is former Masters winner, Sergio Garcia. However, despite the Spaniard’s stature in the game of golf, Garcia was forced to go through both US Open and Open Championship qualifying, failing to get through both times after losing in a seven-man playoff and coming up a shot short in the latter.
“We definitely saw it this past year and you see the hunger in us wanting to play in Majors”, explained Ancer, who only qualified for The Open Championship via a playoff at Final Stage Qualifying.
“It’s something that I don’t really try and think about. I’m happy with my decision (to join LIV) and I knew that may have been a possibility, (of not playing Majors) even though I thought there may have been some type of path created some time ago, but it is what it is. So we’ll see what we’ve got and we’ll keep going.”
Ancer (middle left) qualified alongside…
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