The Masters has made a decision regarding whether LIV Golf defectors will be allowed to play in 2023 at Augusta National amid the Saudi-backed league’s war with the PGA Tour.
The Masters will not ban LIV Golf tour players from competing in the 2023 tournament, Augusta National announced on Tuesday. The club said that any player who qualifies based on its previous criteria for the tournament, which will begin April 6, will be invited to play.
“Regrettably, recent actions have divided men’s professional golf by diminishing the virtues of the game and the meaningful legacies of those who built it,” Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said in a statement. “Although we are disappointed in these developments, our focus is to honor the tradition of bringing together a preeminent field of golfers this coming April.
Joaquin Niemann and Talor Gooch also earned invitations after qualifying for the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship before departing for LIV. “There are reasons to do it on moral grounds [for being financed by the Saudi Arabian government and calls of sportswashing], but then you have to be squeaky clean at every level. That’s just impossible to do comprehensively, so it’s better not to enter the conversation.”
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