Former LIV Golf competitor James Piot will make PGA Tour historical past this week on the Rocket Traditional.
A late addition Monday to the sphere at Michigan’s Detroit Golf Membership, he’s among the many first former LIV gamers to return to the PGA, and the primary to obtain a sponsor exemption on the PGA Tour, Golf Digest reported.
Piot, 26, a local of Farmington Hills, Michigan, and 2021 U.S. Newbie champion, final competed on the PGA Tour in 2022, lacking the lower on the Masters and the U.S. Open. He hasn’t performed a LIV occasion since 2023, which means he’s eligible for the Detroit occasion. PGA Tour guidelines stipulate a yearlong ban for gamers who compete in unauthorized occasions.
“There was lots of assist, and it was one or the happiest calls I’ve made,” match official Mark Hollis advised the Detroit Information. “He is someone we needed in from the get-go as we have been going by the method. It needed to play out the best way it performed out.”
Piot is just not the primary LIV participant to return to the PGA Tour. England’s Laurie Canter has competed in 5 occasions to this point in 2025.
“For it to really occur is the best factor on the earth,” Piot advised the Detroit Information. “It is superior. Simply the actual fact I lastly get to play within the Rocket Traditional, it is a dream come true. Ever for the reason that occasion was created on the schedule, I needed to be part of it.”
Piot grew to become a part of the primary wave of gamers to signal with the breakaway, Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit throughout the summer time of 2022, agreeing to a two-year take care of reportedly $6 million assured.
He recorded just one top-10 end with a T6 in Bangkok in October 2022. A part of captain Phil Mickelson‘s HyFlyers GC workforce, Piot completed forty seventh in particular person factors in 2023 and was demoted to the Asian Tour. He additionally had shoulder surgical procedure throughout that p
PGA Tour guidelines require a one-year ban for gamers who compete in unauthorized occasions like LIV Golf. Piot grew to become eligible once more late October.
