Johnson leaves PGA Tour to play in LIV Invitational Series

• Dustin Johnson has left the PGA Tour to play in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational.
• The American has likely made himself ineligible for the American Ryder Cup group.
• This could endanger his chances of playing in golf’s majors, such as the US Ryder Cup.

Johnson is the second golfer to leave PGA Tour to join combative new occasion which is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

“It’s difficult to talk on what the outcomes may be nevertheless I’ve surrendered my enrollment of the Tour and that is the arrangement until further notice,” Johnson told a news meeting at the Centurion Club, north of London, host of the first of eight occasions.

Individual American Kevin Na said he had additionally picked that choice last week.

On Monday, six-time significant boss Phil Mickelson turned into the most prominent player to commit, finishing a purposeful rest from the game that started in February, in the midst of a reaction over remarks he made about the breakaway series.

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The eye-watering prize cash has drawn in other significant victors like Sergio Garcia, Graeme McDowell and Louis Oosthuizen.

While LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman portrays the new series as a potential chance to “steer golf history”, pundits say it could destroy the game while basic freedoms bunches depict it as Saudi sportswashing.

The PGA Tour last week repeated an admonition to individuals that those highlighting in the breakaway circuit would be “dependent upon disciplinary activity”.

Both the PGA Tour and the Europe-based DP World Tour have declined demands from individuals who had requested deliveries to contend at Centurion where $25 million is available for anyone, including $4 million for the champ and an ensured $120,000 for the player coming rearward in the 48-in number field.

Last year’s U.S. Open boss took $2.5million while the British Open triumph check was $2 million.

The 37-year-old Johnson, apparently being paid $150 million to focus on the series, said he was thankful to the PGA Tour however didn’t have any desire to play golf for the “remainder of my life”.

“This gives me additional time doing the things that I love to do,” he said.

Johnson said he actually wanted to play in the current month’s U.S. Open, which he won in 2016.

“Ideally they will permit us to play. Clearly I’m absolved for the major so I anticipate playing there, except if I hear in any case,” he added.

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On possibly missing the Ryder Cup, he said he had contemplated it: “It was an important choice however ideally, everything is likely to change and we’ll have the option to partake.

“The Ryder Cup is staggering and something made a big difference to me and I’m pleased to say I’ve addressed my nation and ideally I’ll be able to rehash that.

“In any case, I don’t make the standards.”

McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open boss, said he wanted to think not to need to leave his PGA Tour participation, however conceded the award cash on offer was difficult to turn down.

“For a very long time I’ve been pursuing checks,” he said. “We love the game yet we’re maintaining a business here.

“There are no commitments on the PGA Tour and an open door like this goes along where you can play the last three or four years of your vocation in a monetarily rewarding climate, it would be insane to leave that.”

In a meeting with Washington Post, Norman said Tiger Woods has been offered a “mind-blowingly colossal” expense to partake.

The LIV Invitational Series, which has five rounds in the U.S, one in Thailand and one in Saudi Arabia, includes a clever configuration with 48 players contending both as people and as a component of groups that are picked by 12 skippers in a draft framework.

Every occasion will be played more than 54 openings, no slices and with shotgun begins to work with faster play.