Six PGA Tour golfers who could buckle and take LIV Golf mega-money deals

A fig of household pros are rumoured to perchance ditch the prestigious PGA Tour successful a big-money determination to Saudi-backed rivals LIV Golf successful 2025

LIV Golf has attracted loads of apical golfing stars since launching successful 2021.

It's nary concealed that the arguable Saudi-backed league has turned the heads of PGA Tour pros worldwide, acknowledgment to lucrative wage packages for little enactment than its rival promotion. The likes of Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, and Jon Rahm person each gone connected to squad up with the league implicit the years, however, determination is speculation that a fig of different existent PGA players could defect up of the 2025 season.

The LIV Golf play comes to an extremity astatine the Team Championship successful Dallas this week, and it is believed that the outfit volition person a engaged off-season successful attracting much household names from the PGA Tour. Speaking astatine the play finale successful Miami 12 months ago, Mickelson said that helium had spoken with a fig of stars from the PGA and the DP World Tours who were keen to marque the power to the newer promotion.

In the aftermath, the likes of Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Adrian Meronk signed deals with LIV, and play fans could spot much of the aforesaid this winter. Here, Mirror Golf breaks down each of the large names who person been linked with a determination to LIV Golf up of the 2025 season...

Hideki Matsuyama

CEO of LIV Golf Investments, Greg Norman, has antecedently made his stance connected signing Hideki Matsuyama incredibly clear. The Japanese pro, who is presently seventh successful the Official World Golf Rankings, was confirmed arsenic targeted by LIV Golf successful February this year.

Speaking to Golf Digest, Norman admitted: "I’ll springiness you different example. We’ve been trying to get Hideki Matsuyama. I don’t caput admitting that. When Hideki won successful L.A., what’s the archetypal happening I did? I said, ‘Congratulations, Hideki. I’m arrogant of you, mate."

The 32-year-old made his pro debut connected the Japan Golf Tour successful 2013, winning his 2nd participating tourney successful the Tsuyura Open the precise aforesaid year. In 2014, Matsuyama qualified for the PGA Tour done non-member earnings, and implicit the past 10 years, has gone connected to triumph 10 events connected the Tour - including the 2014 Memorial and The Masters successful 2021.

Adam Scott

Golf Magic person reported that Australian Adam Scott could beryllium targeted by LIV this wintertime owed to him being "an established planetary subordinate who is besides a large champion" however, it whitethorn beryllium tricky to tempt him to squad up with the newer set-up. That's due to the fact that he's a subordinate of the PGA Tour's argumentation committee alongside Tiger Woods.

Scott has been a precocious achiever with the PGA Tour implicit the years, racking up 14 wins successful his vocation to date, including a 2004 Players Championship, a 2006 Tour Championship and a 2020 Genesis Invitational. He besides won The Masters backmost successful 2019, beating Angel Cabrera successful a tense playoff.

Viktor Hovland

Norwegian sensation Viktor Hovland has been connected LIV Golf's radar for galore moons now, and helium astir made the determination to the circuit earlier this year. However, helium yet had acold feet citing however helium whitethorn person regretted the determination truthful aboriginal successful his career.

He told Golf Monthly: "At the extremity of the day, the question is ‘What’s going to marque maine a amended player?’ And hey, successful 20 years, if I’m connected the backmost extremity of my career, playing LIV Golf wouldn’t beryllium excessively bad. It mightiness person been a beauteous chill accidental but, close now, it’s thing I deliberation I’d astir apt look backmost [on] and regret.”

At conscionable 27, Hovland has plentifulness of clip connected his broadside to ponder a aboriginal power to LIV, but it looks arsenic though helium volition enactment loyal to the PGA Tour for clip being. He has six PGA Tour wins to his sanction successful his vocation frankincense far, and his champion decorativeness astatine a large came astatine the PGA Championship this twelvemonth - settling for 3rd spot down Xander Schauffele and Bryson DeChambeau.

Rickie Fowler

Rickie Fowler has besides been connected Norman's radar implicit the years, linked with a LIV determination connected a fig of occasions. It is reported that helium received a mega-money connection to marque the switch, but helium yet snubbed it to stay connected the PGA Tour. Speaking connected Netflix's Full Swing, helium admitted: "[Joining LIV] wasn't the champion prime for me.

"I'm not retired determination playing for a wage check, I'm retired determination playing to vie with the champion players successful the world and I judge the Tour is the champion spot to be. I'd similar to spot it proceed to beryllium similar that." Fowler has six PGA Tour wins to his name, including a 2015 Players Championships and a 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Tony Finau

It is reported that Tony Finau besides came incredibly adjacent to signing with LIV Golf this year. He yet decided to snub a determination successful favour of his tenth twelvemonth with the PGA Tour, but with a four-month layoff for LIV chiefs to scout caller members, his caput could beryllium turned for 2025.

Six of Finau's 9 nonrecreational wins successful play person been connected the PGA Tour - his archetypal astatine the 2016 Puerto Rico Open and his latest astatine the 2023 Mexico Open. He is yet to assertion a major, with his champion finishes coming successful the signifier of a third-place spot astatine the 2019 Open Championships and a T3 spot astatine the 2024 US Open.

Wyndham Clark

Wyndham Clark was backed to travel Rahm to LIV Golf successful the 2024 offseason. While helium yet decided to instrumentality with the acquainted PGA Tour, the 30-year-old Denver, Colorado autochthonal has admitted that helium met with representatives of LIV previously. He said: "I decidedly met with LIV and went done those discussions. I wanted to spot what they could bring to the table."

While Clark lone has 3 PGA Tour wins to his sanction frankincense far, helium pipped golfing fable Rory McIlroy to the US Open past year. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if LIV travel a-knocking this wintertime to get his services.