<\/div>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot more going on behind the scenes as to how important it is for us to get points (to match) the PGA Tour.\u201d American Brooks Koepka, winner of this year’s PGA Championship, and Australian Cameron Smith, last year’s British Open champion, are the only LIV players still among the top 50 in the world rankings, a key threshold for entry at major tournaments.<\/p>\n
Mickelson said majors need to ensure other top LIV players have a path to their events.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the majors need to protect their products, and there are probably other ways to do that by creating slots,\u201d Mickelson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they want to make sure they have the best golf courses, they could create vehicles for LIV players to play in major tournaments where they don’t have to use OWGR, which would hurt the contract television and PGA Tour revenues. if they gave points to LIV. Koepka said LIV has a lot of talent that deserves a chance to play in the majors. “I think it’s hard to argue that some of These guys here are not the best players in the world,” Koepka said. “These guys deserve to be in the majors after being in the majors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope there’s a pathway for them to at least get into the majors because I think there’s quite a few guys here that deserve to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LIV Golf, PGA Golf merger, Phil Mickelson, players moving to Liv, competitions, DP World Tour, news, highlights, videos\u060c Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson said Wednesday that more PGA Tour players would move to Saudi-backed LIV Golf despite a framework agreement for a merger by the end of 2023. The 53-year-old American left-hander, among the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}