Ex-LIV Golf star comes agonisingly close to historic PGA Tour return

Laurie Canter was successful contention to gain 1 of the 10 PGA Tour cards connected connection astatine the DP World Tour Championship, but a nightmare decorativeness saw him autumn agonisingly short

Laurie Canter narrowly missed retired connected becoming the archetypal LIV Golf prima to gain a paper connected the PGA Tour successful the breakaway league's era.

Canter was aiming to unafraid one of the 10 PGA Tour cards available to the apical finishers connected the DP World Tour, but fell abbreviated successful the last lawsuit of the play astatine the DP World Tour Championship. During Sunday's last round, the Englishman seemed poised to marque his move, notching up 4 birdies crossed his archetypal 7 holes. With a lucrative Tour paper wrong reach, Canter needed a akin show connected the backmost 9 to unafraid his spot.

However, the erstwhile LIV subordinate couldn't support the precocious standards he'd acceptable earlier. On the backmost nine, Canter managed conscionable 1 birdie, alongside 3 bogeys. His destiny was sealed connected the last spread erstwhile helium made a treble bogey 7 astatine the par-five 18th, resulting successful him finishing tied-14th successful the lawsuit and six spots abbreviated of the last PGA Tour paper successful the Race to Dubai Rankings.

If helium had managed to play his mode onto the sport's starring circuit, it would person marked a important infinitesimal for the game. Canter is simply a erstwhile subordinate of the LIV setup, having participated successful each 3 seasons of the breakaway league. His astir caller quality was earlier this twelvemonth arsenic a wildcard, wherever helium competed successful the archetypal 2 events successful Mexico and Las Vegas, reports the Mirror US.

Anthony Kim replaced him, but acknowledgment to his exemption presumption connected the DP World Tour, helium was capable to instrumentality to the European-based setup. Since then, the English golfer's crippled has improved significantly, culminating successful his archetypal triumph connected the Tour astatine the European Open successful June.

Several top-10 finishes enabled him to suffice for the Tour playoffs, which began past week successful Abu Dhabi, wherever helium tied for 23rd place, keeping his hopes of earning a PGA Tour paper for 2025 alive. Before heading to the Middle East, Canter revealed that adjacent if helium managed to play his mode onto the Tour, helium would person to service a prohibition astatine the commencement of 2025 owed to his information successful the LIV circuit earlier this year.

"I got sent a missive successful the mediate of the year," helium told Bunkered. "The PGA Tour clarified the presumption I was in, which was that I was incapable to play for a twelvemonth from the past LIV lawsuit I played successful which was Vegas. I replied saying, 'Thank you for clarifying that. I deliberation your argumentation is absurd."

"And I bash deliberation it's absurd. I've ne'er been a subordinate of that tour. How tin you prohibition idiosyncratic who has ne'er played connected your tour? I would recognize it if I was a subordinate of their circuit but successful my context, I don't recognize it. I americium a golfer truthful I'm pro accidental but it's a bizarre mode of sanctioning someone."