LIV Golf’s Dustin Johnson has been given a particular invitation to compete in subsequent week’s PGA Championship at Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte, North Carolina, in line with the sector unveiled on Tuesday for the 12 months’s second main.
Winners of the previous 5 Masters are eligible to play within the PGA Championship, which implies former world No. 1 Johnson’s exemption from his 2020 triumph at Augusta Nationwide had run out.
However in line with PGA Championship eligibility necessities, the PGA of America — which is the nationwide governing physique and organizer of the most important — “reserves the fitting to ask further gamers” who didn’t meet the opposite eligibility standards.
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Johnson missed the reduce ultimately month’s Masters and has recorded two top-10 finishes in seven LIV Golf occasions thus far this season. The 2-time main winner, who completed runner-up on the PGA Championship in 2019 and 2020, can be considered one of 16 LIV members within the 156-player discipline subsequent week.
Among the many different LIV Golf gamers within the discipline are Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Sergio Garcia, Tyrrell Hatton, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Cameron Smith and Joaquín Niemann.
The PGA Championship runs from Might 15 to Might 18.
