Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia playing for what Liv Golf can’t give to Macau

Some of Liv Golf’s best players are joining Macau this weekend, not for price money, but for a golden ticket.

Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, Adrian Meronk and Carlos Ortiz are among the 17 liv players playing in International Asian Series Event Tour Macau For a chance to play their way to the open championship in Royal Portrush. The Macau event is part of the R&A qualifying series, giving spots in 153 open to the three Finishers Top Finishers not already excluded for the open championship.

“This is an important week,” Garcia said at a press conference in front of the tournament. “It’s a great tournament, it’s a very good field, and also with those three points for catching for the open championship, it’s important. It is my favorite, so I would like to go back to it not playing the last two years. So, I will give it the best shooting.

“Of course we all want to play in diplomas and be part of them and give ourselves a blow to it. So having the opportunity to qualify here with these three main points is great and simply shows the growth of the Asian tour and how important it is with the quality of the players we have here. So it should be a great week.”

Added Reed: “I feel like every time you have an opportunity to qualify for a major, simply gives you extra motivation to get out and have a little more car to get out and try to make them strokes and play your best game. Because at the end of the day, they are the four events we are trying to always play.”

After the third round of Saturday, Reed and Ortiz are tied to the top at 16 under. Jason Kokrak is tied for the third on 13 under, while Garcia is six reed back and three back third place.

Last year, Reed played at the Master and PGA championship before losing the open and open US championship. Garcia played in Masters and US Open. He had played in 22 steps strai Before losing 2023 and 2024 repetition.

In February, R&A revealed an exception That it will give the highest player in the individual Liv Golf ranking which has not already qualified after the Liv Dallas event in late June.

Currently, Garcia is third in the individual Liv Golf ranking after his victory in Liv Hong Kong. Both players in front of him – Joaquin Niemann and Jon Rahm – have already qualified to open at Royal Portrush, so he is currently in a good place to provide an exception like the dawn of the big season.

However, Garcia has to play a much better golf to earn the exemption, with Sebastian Munoz, David Puig, and others close in the rankings and some events left before the R&A interruption date.

A good Sunday round and a third -place finish in the Macau can change all of them for Garcia.

With Reed and Ortiz in the position of the poles to subtract two of the three exceptions, Garcia must trace and cross the coke, Dominic Foos and Lucas Herbert to mark his ticket back to his favorite major.