LIV GOLF PLAYERS CAN IN ANY CASE CONTEND IN US OPEN - USGA

June 7, 2022
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LIV golf players can in any case contend in US Open - USGA

 

Players participating in the initial case of a dubious Saudi-upheld golf series starting external London this week will be allowed to play in the US Open, the United States Golf Association said on Tuesday.

 

An assertion from the USGA said notwithstanding players who have joined to the rewarding LIV Golf Invitational Series would be "unseemly and uncalled for".

 

"We value being the most open title on the planet and the players who have acquired the option to contend in the current year's title, both through exclusion and qualifying, will have the potential chance to do as such," the USGA proclamation said.

 

The current year's US Open happens at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, from June 16-19, and comes as the universe of golf is in commotion over the send off of the cash turning LIV Golf series.

 

Previous world No 1 Dustin Johnson and six-time significant hero Phil Mickelson are among a few easily recognized names who have joined to LIV, regardless of undermined of disciplinary activity by the PGA Tour.

 

Whether players who split with laid out visits to join LIV Golf would in any case be permitted to play in golf's four majors has been perhaps the greatest vulnerability.

 

The USGA said in its proclamation on Tuesday its choice to permit LIV players into the following week's Open was not proof of help for the new series.

 

"Our choice in regards to our field for the 2022 US Open ought not be understood as the USGA supporting an option sorting out substance, nor strong of any singular player activities or remarks," the USGA said.

 

"Rather, it is essentially a reaction to whether the USGA sees playing in an elective occasion, without the assent of their home visit, an offense that ought to exclude them for the US Open.

 

"We basically posed ourselves this inquiry - should a player who had procured his direction into the 2022 US Open, through our distributed field rules, be pulled out of the field because of his choice to play in another occasion? Also, we eventually concluded that they shouldn't."