{"id":40785,"date":"2022-06-07T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/usga-to-allow-liv-golfers-like-dustin-johnson-to-compete-at-us-open\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:08:15","slug":"usga-to-allow-liv-golfers-like-dustin-johnson-to-compete-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/usga-to-allow-liv-golfers-like-dustin-johnson-to-compete-at-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"USGA to allow LIV golfers like Dustin Johnson to compete at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Golf\u2019s biggest shank: Is Phil Mickelson\u2019s legacy tarnished forever?\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As several golfers who have earned a spot in next week&#8217;s 122nd US Open prepare to compete in the first LIV Golf event outside London, many people wondered whether the game&#8217;s governing bodies would continue to honor their spots in the field at The Country Club in Brookline, which sits just outside Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tuesday afternoon, the United States Golf Association put the wondering to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We pride ourselves in being the most open championship in the world and the players who have earned the right to compete in this year&#8217;s championship, both via exemption and qualifying, will have the opportunity to do so,&#8221; the USGA stated in a press release .  &#8220;Our field criteria were set prior to entries opening earlier this year and it&#8217;s not appropriate, nor fair to competitors, to change criteria once established.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">SPORTS NEWSLETTER:<\/strong>Sign up now for daily updates sent to your inbox<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">QUITTING:<\/strong>Dustin Johnson resigns his PGA Tour membership to play in Saudi league<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">HOW IT UNFOLDED:<\/strong>LIV Golf Invitational Series press conference gets heated before inaugural event<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It appears that the final decision for the governing body of golf in the United States, Canada and Mexico was a simple question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Should a player who had earned his way into the 2022 US Open, via our published field criteria, be pulled out of the field as a result of his decision to play in another event?  And we ultimately decided that they should not. &#8220;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This clears the way for Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Louis Oosthuizen, Kevin Na and other players who have a spot in the field at the US Open and who are playing in this week&#8217;s LIV Golf event to compete.  However, the USGA made clear that it is not endorsing the new tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cOur decision regarding our field for the 2022 US Open should not be construed as the USGA supporting an alternative organizing entity, nor supportive of any individual player actions or comments.  Rather, it is simply a response to whether or not the USGA views playing in an alternative event, without the consent of their home tour, an offense that should disqualify them for the US Open. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/07\/USAT\/71de4703-bc95-497d-8468-239047c82cec-USATSI_17569286.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/07\/USAT\/71de4703-bc95-497d-8468-239047c82cec-USATSI_17569286.jpg?crop=5362,3017,x0,y0&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As several golfers who have earned a spot in next week&#8217;s 122nd US Open prepare to compete in the first LIV Golf event outside London, many people wondered whether the game&#8217;s governing bodies would continue to honor their spots in the field at The Country Club in Brookline, which sits just outside Boston, Massachusetts. Tuesday &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/usga-to-allow-liv-golfers-like-dustin-johnson-to-compete-at-us-open\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USGA to allow LIV golfers like Dustin Johnson to compete at US Open<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/07\/USAT\/651abf78-44f5-4057-b072-8ea33c82e291-USP_PGA__ATT_Byron_Nelson_-_First_Round.jpg?width=660&height=462&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}