DP World Tour forcing players to make a choice with LIV Golf at crossroads
LIV Golf was dealt another blow as the rebel golf league looks to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings successfully. The DP World Tour will not allow any players who sign up to play on LIV 2.0 next season to participate in 2027, impacting not only players’ schedules but also making them ineligible to play for the European team at next year’s Ryder Cup. The hardline stance comes after previous years saw the DP World Tour reach agreements for some of the top players to participate in both the DP World Tour and LIV Golf.It was what had allowed Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton to compete for Europe during the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. “Players need to make a choice,” DP World Tour CEO Guy Kinnings told the BBC in a statement.
“We have rules and regulations which are there to protect our tour and which our members must all abide by.Players who are not willing to comply with our rules and regulations should not be seeking to join our tour.”Players have until Nov.
16 to sign up for the European tour for 2027 and they will be asked to disclose which tours they will play on next season, with that being taken into account in their membership decision, the BBC reported. BC Partners, the private equity firm working to help keep LIV Golf alive, extended the deadline for players to commit to LIV until Oct.25, and only Richard Bland has publicly said he would play on the new incarnation of the league. Two-time major winner Jon Rahm has said through his lawyer that he will not play on LIV Golf next season, and David Puig and Adrian Meronk have also said they would not take part. Sources connected to the DP World Tour told The Athletic on Monday that LIV Golf’s proposed new structure, which includes player equity stakes, is part of what led to the change in posture from the European tour on conditional releases. LIV CEO Scott O’Neil had pushed the idea of “complete, not compete” when addressing the media during the rebel golf league’s season finale i...