LIV Golf players to receive Open Championship berths after historic agreement reached

LIV Golf players volition present beryllium capable to suffice for the Open Championship, the oldest and astir prestigious large connected the golfing calendar, utilizing points gained successful the 54-hole no-cut league

Golf's civilian warfare appears to beryllium nearing an extremity with each passing day, and it has present been revealed that players from the breakaway LIV Golf bid will, for the archetypal time, beryllium capable to suffice for the Open Championship with points from the Saudi Arabia-funded league.

The R&A is acceptable to widen an olive subdivision to LIV, according to the Telegraph, successful what is simply a important stroke to the Official World Golf Rankings. Previously, large fields - specified arsenic the Open Championship and US Open - person been constructed utilizing OWGR points, though those aren't attainable done LIV.

As a result, players person ended up missing retired contempt being eligible based connected ability, meaning large title fields person perchance been weakened. Now, however, the R&A, which runs the Open Championship, has followed the pb of the United States Golf Association (which made a akin motion to LIV players earlier this week regarding the US Open and volition let LIV players to enter.

The determination signifies a softening successful the golfing world's stance towards LIV. Previously, erstwhile LIV CEO Greg Norman was banned from attending the 150th Open astatine St Andrews, contempt him being a erstwhile president of the R&A, owed to his ties with the Saudi breakaway league.

Starting with this year's Open Championship astatine Portrush, Ireland, LIV players volition beryllium capable to suffice utilizing points they gain astatine the 54-hole closed-entry events. Norman is nary longer the league's CEO and Commissioner, however, having been replaced by Scott O’Neil, and it seems his replacement is already getting to enactment successful legitimising the league.

In caller months, LIV has signed deals with FOX Sports to broadcast its events successful America and Europe, and connected Friday greeting it was announced a akin woody had been reached with ITV to bring play backmost to free-to-air TV successful the UK.

With those agreements successful mind, it seems the civilian warfare betwixt LIV and the PGA Tour is dilatory but surely coming to an end. On Thursday, it was announced that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan had visited the White House with Player Directors Tiger Woods and Adam Scott to conscionable with President Donald Trump.

While there, they issued a plea to the newly-inaugurated President to play a relation successful bringing the athletics backmost together, penning successful a statement: "We cognize play fans are eagerly anticipating a solution to negotiations with the Public Investment Fund and privation to convey President Trump for his involvement and long-time enactment of the crippled of golf.

"We asked the President to get progressive for the bully of the game, the bully of the country, and for each the countries involved. We are grateful that his enactment has brought america person to a last deal, paving the mode for reunification of men's nonrecreational golf."