Fresh off the back of a 2025 Masters invite alongside Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard, Joaquin Niemann has voiced his support for Kevin Na’s idea that all LIV winners and a select number of the circuit’s top talent should earn exemptions into all of the Majors every year.
Niemann’s fellow LIV captain, Na told Golf Monthly earlier this week that he believes each event winner – plus the top-16 in the final standings – should be exempt into all four Major championships moving forward.
Na argued that there are only 13 LIV tournaments each season and that with such a strong field, anyone who comes out on top is therefore equally capable of doing so at one of the four biggest events on the planet.
Torque leader, Niemann mostly agreed with his IronHeads GC counterpart on how LIV’s Major exemption pathway should look but outlined a slightly more stringent cut-off point than the 16 best players each season.
Niemann said: “I would look at the rankings – whoever is the most consistent during the year has the chance to play at all the Majors next season. I would say the top-10 in the LIV rankings.
Kevin Na looks on during the 2024 LIV Golf League season
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“LIV winners could be a way to do it, too, because if you are winning tournaments then you have a chance to win Majors. But, at the end of the day, I think it’s going to be pretty much the same with the top-10. They will all most likely win anyway.”
According to his own theoretical pathway, Niemann would be in the field for each of the biggest championships during 2025 after winning twice last year and ending runner-up behind Jon Rahm in LIV’s individual-season standings.
However, the harsh reality for the Torque GC captain is that he is only currently in two – The Open and now The Masters following good news earlier in the week.
Explaining how he came to learn he had been offered a start at the 89th Masters, the Chilean shared: “It’s pretty special that they invited me back again into The Masters. They called me [on Tuesday] – I had a phone call from one of the representatives of Augusta, calling on behalf of Fred Ridley – saying that I was invited on behalf of the good play lately. I had to wait until 10am [on Wednesday] to make it official.”
Going on to say that he was hopeful of an invite into the PGA…
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