{"id":163387,"date":"2022-12-20T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/masters-criteria-allow-liv-golfers-to-play-in-2023-tournament\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:12:07","slug":"masters-criteria-allow-liv-golfers-to-play-in-2023-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/masters-criteria-allow-liv-golfers-to-play-in-2023-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters criteria allow LIV golfers to play in 2023 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Augusta National Golf Club announced Tuesday that any golfer who qualified for the Masters tournament based on its previous criteria will be invited to play in 2023, including 16 players who are currently competing in the LIV Golf League.<\/p>\n

Six past Masters champions are part of the group that defected from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf: Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed and Charl Schwartzel.<\/p>\n

“Regretably, 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 Golf Club 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.<\/p>\n

“Therefore, as invitations are sent this week, we will invite those eligible under our current criteria to compete in the 2023 Masters Tournament. As we have said in the past, we look at every aspect of the Tournament each year, and any modifications or changes to invitation criteria for future Tournaments will be announced in April. We have reached a seminal point in the history of our sport. At Augusta National, we have faith that golf, which has overcome many challenges through the years, will endure again.”<\/p>\n