Following months of speculation, the team line-ups for the start of the 2023 LIV Golf season have been confirmed, with six new signings and one returning player.
Spaniard David Puig is back after it was announced that he had turned professional and fully signed up to LIV Golf last September. Meanwhile, Mito Pereira, Sebastian Munoz, Dean Burmester, Brendan Steele, Danny Lee and Thomas Pieters will be participating for the first time. Of course, given the limited 48-player fields for each tournament, that means seven players have stepped aside – at least for the start of the season.
Wade Ormsby
Wade Ormsby struggled to build on his tie for 22nd in the 2022 LIV Golf season opener
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Wade Ormsby played in every tournament last season, but of the seven regular events, his tie for 22nd in the opener at London’s Centurion Club was as good as it got for the Australian.
Ormsby’s underwhelming form has largely continued on other tours in recent months. He competed on the DP World Tour for its two tournaments in his homeland, in conjunction with the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia, but he could only finish tied for 34th at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship and missed the cut in the ISPS Handa Australian Open the next week.
Since then, he’s played three Asian Tour events, including two in the International Series, with his best result a tie for 36th in the International Series Oman.
Laurie Canter
Despite two top-10 finishes in the inaugural LIV Golf season, there is no place for him as the 2023 season begins
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Another ever-present was Englishman Laurie Canter, and he hit a purple patch during the season, finishing tied for eighth in Chicago before responding with a tie for 10th in the following tournament in Bangkok. That wasn’t enough to persuade the powers-that-be that he was worthy of the start in 2023, though.
Like Ormsby, Canter has plied his trade on the DP World Tour and Asian Tour since October’s Team Championship at Trump National Doral. His most eye-catching result was an impressive third in December’s Alfred Dunhill Championship on the DP World Tour.
Sadom Kaewkanjana
Sadom Kaewkanjana has been dropped by LIV Golf despite some excellent results on the Asian Tour in recent months
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Sadom Kaewkanjana is one of two players moving on from Kevin Na’s Iron Heads GC. The high point of his season came with a tie for 13th in Boston. Kaewkanjana also performed reasonably…
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