Phil Mickelson’s LIV Golf teammate Andy Ogletree says he has heard rumours PGA Tour players will play in the breakaway tour’s promotions event in 2024.
Phil Mickelson’s LIV Golf teammate Andy Ogletree says he’s heard ‘rumours’ some PGA Tour players are already eyeing up the breakaway’s promotions event in December.
LIV’s 2024 season drew to a close last week in Dallas with Cameron Smith’s Ripper taking down the Team Championship.
Former World No.1 and 2023 Masters champion Jon Rahm was crowned the individual champion on 15 September in Chicago.
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Attention will now turn to which players will be involved in the LIV Golf League in 2025 after Bubba Watson, Kalle Samooja, Scott Vincent, Kieran Vincent and Branded Grace got relegated.
Watson is likely to be retained on the roster given his commercial appeal and it is understood the South African quartet want to retain Grace on Stinger.
There is one avenue, though, where players do not need to be offered contacts.
And that is LIV’s promotions event that will take place over 8-10 December at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the UAE.
The aforementioned Samooja, Kieran Vincent and Jinichiro Kozuma earned their spots in the promotions event last December.
Ogletree earned his LIV ᵴtriƥes after he won the Asian Tour’s International Series order of merit in 2023.
He played in LIV’s inaugural event at Centurion and finished dead last, but worked his way back to the circuit.
“It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the off-season,” he told the Fairway to Heaven podcast.
“I’m curious to see how it all plays out with the guys in the open zone versus the guys in the relegation zone.
“I think the promotions event is going to be a little bigger this year. I’ve heard some rumours that some more PGA players are going to go over and play it.
“We’ll see but I think it’s going to be an exciting off-season for LIV.”
PGA Tour players were banned from entering LIV’s promotions event in 2023.
Perhaps the most notable PGA player to enter the field was former U.S. PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner.
All of this transfer talk might not be relevant if the PGA Tour and LIV’s backers, the Saudi PIF, can finally agree a peace deal.
The main tours have been involved in peace talks since last June but so far no deal has come to pass.
We have absolutely no idea what that deal could look like, but it’s likely no changes will be implemented until 2026 at the earliest.
PGA Tour boss Jay Monahan along with his European counterpart Guy Kinnings have stressed they are confident something could be worked out.
But scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as players looking out for themselves, are the two main stumbling blocks according to Rory McIlroy.
