PGA Tour Suspends LIV Golf Participants, US Open Odds Unimpacted

The PGA Tour today announced the spartan consequences of its members deciding to examine the LIV Golf waters and vie on the unexampled Saudi-funded professional person golf tour.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said today that from each one of the 17 Tour members playing this calendar week inward capital of the United Kingdom inwards LIV Golf’s initiatory case has been suspended from competing in Tour-sanctioned tournaments.

“These players have got made their quality for their own financial-based reasons,” Monahan wrote inward a memo to members. “But they can’t exact the same PGA Tour rank benefits, considerations, opportunities, and political program as you.

That expectation disrespects you, our fans and our partners. You get made a different choice, which is to abide by the Tournament Regulations you in agreement(p) to when you realised the dreaming of earning a PGA TOUR card and — to a greater extent significantly — to vie as section of the preeminent system inward the world of pro golf,” Monahan continued.

Dustin Dr. Johnson ranked 15th inward the electric current Official World Golf Rankings, is the top-ranked golfer to jump off the Tour for LIV Golf. DJ, the 2016 US Open and 2020 Edgar Lee Masters winner, resigned his PGA Tour membership in announcing his plans to caper full-time on the LIV Golf circuit.

US Open Unimpacted

The PGA Tour is inward Canada this week for the RBC Canadian Open. But golf game oddsmakers are more heavily focussed on next week’s US Open. While the PGA Tour is suspending its 17 members playing inwards the LIV Golf Invitational London, the USGA — which organizes and runs the US Open — said those players relieve for golf’s tertiary major of the yr will live allowed to participate.

Regarding players who may take to drama inwards Greater London this week, we simply asked ourselves this question: should a participant who had earned his way into the 2022 US Open, via our published theatre criteria, follow pulled come out of the field of operations as a result of his conclusion to gambol inward another event? And we finally decided that they should not,” a USGA financial statement explained.

That way odds for the US Open at The Country Club inwards Brookline, Ma., will not follow affected. President Andrew Johnson remains a betting front-runner at 30/1 to win his second subject championship.

Other LIV players who testament child's play inward the US Open include Phil Mickelson (250/1), Sergio Garcia (150/1), Talor Gooch (125/1), and Richard Henry Lee Westwood (125/1). World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has the shortest US Open odds at 12/1.

More Defectors Expected

The PGA Tour’s dangling annunciation of those competing inwards LIV Golf comes as several more high-profile names are expected to foretell their involvement in hereafter LIV events.

The name is highlighted by 2020 US Open champ Bryson DeChambeau and 2018 Edgar Lee Masters winner Saint Patrick Reed. DeChambeau is at 50/1 to win the US Open. John Reed is at 60/1.

Legal sportsbooks inward the US opened upwards lines before of today’s first of all of three-round LIV Golf John Griffith Chaney Invitational. Andrew Johnson is the betting favourite at 5/1.

BetMGM says 26% of the money wagered on the opening LIV tournament is on DJ. He’s also on more than 17% of the ticket slips to make the book’s largest liability.