The Masters introduced Tuesday that any golfer who has certified for the match based mostly on its earlier standards can be invited to play within the 2023 match in April.Which means at the very least 16 gamers at the moment on the LIV Golf circuit can be a part of the sphere at Augusta Nationwide, together with six previous champions.Match chairman Fred Ridley made the announcement.”Now we have reached a seminal level within the historical past of our sport,” Ridley stated in his assertion. “At Augusta Nationwide, we have now religion that golf, which has overcome many challenges by way of the years, will endure once more.”Included within the area can be six previous champs: Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed and Charl Schwartzel.Cameron Smith qualifies for successful the 2022 Open Championship. Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are invited as a result of they’ve gained the U.S. Open prior to now 5 years. Joaquin Niemann was within the prime 30 within the FedEx Cup standings and qualifies after leaving the PGA Tour in September.Talor Gooch, Harold Varner III, Jason Kokrak, Kevin Na, Abraham Ancer and Louis Oosthuizen are all within the prime 50 within the present World Golf Rankings and may earn an invitation. Additionally, any participant within the prime 50 within the World Golf Rankings on the week previous to the 2023 occasion would additionally earn an invite.”Via the years, legends of the sport have competed and gained at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership,” Ridley stated within the assertion. “Champions like Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Gary Participant, Tom Watson, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have change into heroes to golfers of all ages. They’ve impressed some to observe of their footsteps and so many others to play and benefit from the recreation. They’ve supported the game and, thus, all who profit from it. They’ve proven respect for many who got here earlier than them and blazed a path for future generations. Golf is best due to them.”Regrettably, current actions have divided males’s skilled golf by diminishing the virtues of the sport and the significant legacies of those that constructed it. Though we’re dissatisfied in these developments, our focus is to honor the custom of bringing collectively a preeminent area of golfers this coming April.”
Masters standards permit LIV golfers to play in '23
