LIV Golf’s Dustin Johnson has been given a particular invitation to compete in subsequent week’s PGA Championship at Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte, North Carolina, based on the sector unveiled on Tuesday for the yr’s second main.
Winners of the previous 5 Masters are eligible to play within the PGA Championship, which suggests former world No. 1 Johnson’s exemption from his 2020 triumph at Augusta Nationwide had run out.
However based on PGA Championship eligibility necessities, the PGA of America — which is the nationwide governing physique and organizer of the most important — “reserves the fitting to ask further gamers” who didn’t meet the opposite eligibility standards.
Johnson missed the reduce eventually month’s Masters and has recorded two top-10 finishes in seven LIV Golf occasions to this point this season. The 2-time main winner, who completed runner-up on the PGA Championship in 2019 and 2020, might be one in every of 16 LIV members within the 156-player discipline subsequent week.
Among the many different LIV Golf gamers within the discipline are Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Sergio Garcia, Tyrrell Hatton, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Cameron Smith and Joaquín Niemann.
The PGA Championship runs from Could 15 to Could 18.
