This week Liv Dallas The event comes with a big subplot.
(Literally.)
There is a last point available at the Major of the Men’s Final, the Open Championship (July 17-20), which is reserved for a Liv player. At the beginning of this year R&A – the management body that owns and operates open – notified That he would keep a place excluded for the best player in the individual LIV rankings that was not qualified differently for the event, provided he was one of the top five LIV players.
The first three in the current ranking of Liv – Joaquin Niemann, Bryson Dechambeau and Jon Rahm – are now thanks to other exceptions. This means there is a place left and a wide race to look for it.
Sergio Garcia is currently the number 4 of Livi, which means if all things remain equal he would be the one with a portrait. This would mark a particularly significant return for the Spaniard, who played every open from 1998 to 2022 before losing the last two publications. When he only came out in the US Open Qualification last month, she marked the end of his consecutive 25 -step step of the SHBE when the final Open Qualification Information was issued, Garcia’s name was left outwhich means that he is laying all his eggs in this basket of Livi’s exclusion.
Liv Dallas elections, in advance
Garcia was already tallting the qualification to open in the international series of Asian Tour Macau, who held three points for The Open. But Garcia lost a three -legged For Birdie in his last hole, dedicating his place to Liv Pro Jason Kokrak in the country.
In Dallas, someone within 40 points of Garcia can technically slide his place if they have to win and he does not earn points. But his two closest competitors are no. 5 Lucas Herbert (6.1 points behind) and Sebastian Munoz (8.6 points after). There is also the external option for two excluded players to slide into 4 and 5 slots (to say, Carlos Ortiz and Marc Leishman, currently 6 and 7) and no additional exceptions would be given.
Garcia was hot red to start the season, winning the Liv event in Hong Kong, ending fourth in the international series Macau and third in Liv Miami and Promoting Ryder Cup fraud in the process. But it has been a war since then; He lost the cut in the masters, finished T67 in the Championship PGA, lost US Open completely and its best end of Liv since April is T38.
The exclusion itself represents a sign of time change and a sign of cooperation in a broken golf landscape. While Liv still does not give world rankings, this year it was the first time every diploma has presented an official path to qualification through performance in Liv events. US Open gave a similar exception, which Niemann closed with his third Liv victory of the season (he now has four).
While many of the Liv players have fallen into OWGR, Livi’s highest pro -qualified pro -pro -pro -proofing include Munoz (No. 62 on Datagolf’s ORDER), David Puig (No. 65), Herbert (No. 66), Garcia (No. 85) and Dean Burmeter (No. 92).
Open’s latest qualification will take place on July 1, with former adults, PGA Tour Pro, and many other current LIVs determined to be sent by Dallas to the UK on Sunday after the UK round for 36 holes on Monday. Read more about the visible ones here.
You can see the first 20 places in the Livi Orders below – or the full list here.
Individual ranking of golf liv
Players with * are already qualified.
1. Niemann 165.5*
2. DEAMBEAU 120.6 *
3. Rahm 116.7*
4. Garcia 78.0
5. Herbert 71.9
6. Munoz 69.4
7. ORIZ 66.0*
8. Leishman 64.9*
9. Burmeter 60.3
10. PUIG 60.1
11. Mickelson 55.7*
12. Schwartzel 50.2
13. Lahiri 46.6
14. Kiapka 45.1 *
15. MERONK 44.7
16. Pieters 43.9
17. GOOCH 43.2
18. Reed 41.1*
19. Ancer 40.9
20. Smith 37.8*
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