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Tom McKibbin, the second from left to Pink Hat, received a special invitation to play the PGA 2025 championship.
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2025 PGA Championship It’s a week away, with players reporting on the waiting course The empty quil After a few days. Now, two extra stars Liv Golf, Tom McKibbin AND David Puigwill join the best of the game after receiving the last minute invitations to play PGA.
PGA Championship: The strongest golf field?
The PGA Championship is the second main to men of the year. While there may be no masters tape, it often contains the strongest field in Golf.
Typically, most of the top 100 players in The official golf ranking in the world are invited if they are not qualified otherwise. In contrast, the whole field of masters is under 100 players.
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But a major issue has arisen from this policy in recent years: Liv Golf. So far, Liv Golf tournaments do not provide world rankings. So Liv Liv’s only players have to go up the rankings are playing in diplomas and choosing Asias Tour and DP World Tour Events, which offer less points than PGA Tour events.
Players u like Bryson dechambeau AND Brooks koepkawho have won diplomas since membership in LIV, have been able to automatically qualify for the four biggest golf events through world rankings or their appearances in diplomas.
Others, as is Joaquin NiemannThey have not had much success with the world rankings. Niemann, for example, has won three Liv events in seven starts this year. But he still had to rely on a special invitation to play masters. He also received an invitation to PGA next week.
McKibbin, Puig to play Championship PGA
The situation is a little different for McKibbin and Puig.
But Niemann’s harsh game in 2025 has gained an automatic exception in US Open, thanks to a New Qualification Criteria introduced this season which offers an American open place for the player within three of the first three Livi’s individual order Not otherwise qualified since May 19.
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McKibbin is a 22-year-old phenomenon from northern Ireland. He won his 2025 PGA Tour card by finishing 18 in the 2024 season race of DP World Tour 2024 in Dubai. But Despite warnings from Rory McilroyMcKibbin chose to move to his card in favor of the Liv Golf Union.
McKibbin plays in Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII team. Although he was within the 100 best earlier this season, his current official golf ranking in the world is 115.
But given his strong game in Liv in 2025 and last year at the DP World Tournament, the PGA Championship organizers offered him an invitation this week only, and Tuesday morning, Legion XII X account made the news officer.
Puig is another new phenomenon which decided to join Liv Golf directly outside the college. Now 23 years old, Puig is currently seventh in the individual golf ranking of 2025.
After finishing T4 at the DP World Tour’s 2025 Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship, Puig’s world ranking rose all the way to 77. Since then it has fallen up to 107.
This ranking would typically see him lose in the PGA championship next week. But as with McKibbin, Puig received a last minute invitation to Quail Hollow.
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