Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler comments as LIV Golf stars see ban lifted

The PGA of America confirmed this week that LIV Golf players volition beryllium eligible for the adjacent Ryder Cup aft being added to the body's database of 'approved tours'

Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler whitethorn person contrasting views connected the telephone to let LIV Golf players to suffice for USA’s Ryder Cup team.

Players connected the Saudi-backed circuit will present beryllium eligible for the Ryder Cup and the US PGA Championship, it has been confirmed aft the PGA of America added LIV to its database of “approved tours”. That gives LIV players rank of the organisation, a request to beryllium eligible for the lucifer versus Team Europe.

Brooks Koepka was the lone LIV subordinate connected Team USA astatine the 2023 lawsuit successful Rome, but lone aft receiving a wildcard prime from skipper Zach Johnson. The PGA Tour’s determination to driblet the prohibition connected LIV players volition unfastened the doorway to the likes of US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson.

The latter’s engagement would beryllium welcomed by Xander Schauffele, who past twelvemonth named Johnson erstwhile asked who would beryllium his imagination pairs partner, snubbing his Ryder Cup team-mates, including adjacent pal Patrick Cantlay. However, Scheffler whitethorn not beryllium arsenic welcoming to those LIV players.

The world fig 1 suggested earlier this twelvemonth that LIV defectors indispensable look immoderate benignant of authorisation for ditching the PGA Tour. He told the Golf Channel: “That’s decidedly a analyzable contented that I’m not sitting excessively acold connected 1 broadside of the obstruction with that.

“I deliberation there’s a antithetic level of subordinate that near – you had immoderate guys that near our circuit and past sued our tour, that wasn’t truly successful large taste. And past you had immoderate different guys that conscionable near and they wanted to bash thing different, and everybody made their decision, and I person nary atrocious humor toward the guys that left.

“But a way toward coming back, it wouldn’t beryllium a precise fashionable decision, I think, if they conscionable came backmost similar thing ever happened. They did benignant of permission and – they near our tour, that’s conscionable portion of it.

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“There should beryllium a pathway backmost for them, but they decidedly shouldn’t beryllium capable to travel backmost without immoderate benignant of publication to the tour.”

As it announced the change, the PGA Tour said successful a statement: “Going forward, each LIV Golf players are eligible for the PGA Championship and immoderate American subordinate who qualifies for the Ryder Cup connected points oregon is added to the US squad arsenic a captain’s prime is eligible to compete.

“This is accordant with LIV Golf players competing successful the PGA Championship the past 2 years. Brooks Koepka was a subordinate of the US Ryder Cup squad past year.”

Discussions implicit reuniting men’s play stay ongoing much than a twelvemonth since the PGA and Europe’s DP World Tour announced a "framework agreement" for a merger with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the fiscal musculus down LIV.

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