PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Patrick Reed has not missed a serious since he first turned eligible for them on the 2014 Masters, a streak that now could be in peril with the PGA Championship two months away.
The PGA of America despatched out its first batch of invites, and Reed was not on the listing. Joaquin Niemann acquired an invite, having gained the Australian Open and posting two different top-five finishes in European tour-sanctioned occasions, together with a LIV Golf League victory.
How a lot that LIV Golf Mayakoba win mattered is unknown. The Masters additionally provided Niemann a particular invitation and cited solely his European tour performances.
Kerry Haigh, the managing director of championship for the PGA of America, stated one other batch of invites will exit after the Gamers Championship. The total listing can be introduced within the weeks resulting in the Could 16-19 championship at Valhalla.
Not one of the majors have a class for main gamers from LIV Golf, and there isn’t any indication that can change. The PGA of America has the most important listing of invites, which for years has included the highest 100 (and a bit of past) on the planet rating. It simply does not listing the highest 100 as a class.
“We actually do use that listing, in addition to different lists from varied excursions around the globe,” Haigh stated. “It is nothing new or totally different than what we have executed prior to now and hopefully we’ll plan to take action once more.”
The PGA Championship additionally depends closely on a PGA Tour cash listing that begins after the PGA Championship. Haigh was requested if there would ever be a LIV Golf factors listing.
“It is the identical reply,” he stated. “We take a look at all of the lists. We do not essentially put a quantity on it. If gamers are deserving, hopefully we’d invite them.”
Reed has plunged to No. 109 on the planet — LIV Golf does not get world rating factors, and the Saudi Arabia-funded league final week withdrew its utility for them.
It isn’t from a scarcity of effort. Reed performed twice on the Asian Tour final week (a tie for seventh and a tie for fifteenth), and he’s taking part in this week in Macau. The Masters presumably can be his final likelihood to make an impression. He has but to win within the LIV Golf League .
Nearly all of LIV Golf gamers within the majors are latest main champions.
The R&A didn’t make exceptions for LIV Golf when it introduced its standards final week, aside from so as to add 5 spots from the Worldwide Federation Rating — the main 4 gained cash titles on the Japan, Asian, South African and Australasian excursions, and the fifth participant from these excursions relies on the world rating.
Andy Ogletree with LIV Golf is the highest Asian tour participant.
One concession the R&A is more likely to make comes from remaining qualifying on 4 hyperlinks programs two weeks earlier than the July 18-21 Open at Royal Troon. They at the moment have 16 spots — 4 from every web site. The purpose is to spice up that to twenty spots.
Which may clarify why the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which final 12 months awarded three spots to the British Open to gamers not already exempt, provided just one this 12 months. The Memorial additionally has just one spot accessible. However the fields in these signature occasions are so sturdy that the majority gamers already are exempt.
Reed will not be exempt for the British Open, both. He acquired into the U.S. Open final 12 months as a result of his world rating was nonetheless among the many prime 60. That is not the case, relying on how he performs within the Masters.
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