{"id":480620,"date":"2025-12-30T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:36:10","slug":"liv-golf-is-changing-its-field-size-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480620\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Is Changing Its Field Size for 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_bivpq2g81\">The LIV Golf league is going to 57 players in 2026, with an extra spot being awarded at next month\u2019s Promotions event in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_nq0ne0buh\">LIV will maintain its 13-team, four-man structure with five players competing\u00a0as individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_kw1059m4d\">Two of those players, Zimbabwe\u2019s Scott Vincent and Japan\u2019s Yosuke Asaji, were already decided at the conclusion of the Asian Tour\u2019s International Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q7lme51p6\">On the same day that the Official World Golf Ranking announced it is still in discussions with LIV about accreditation, the move is viewed as another step in trying to gain approval. LIV previously announced it will go from playing 54 holes to <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/liv-golf-makes-major-change-competition-format-72-holes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">72 holes in 2026<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official World Golf Ranking Board Continues LIV Golf Application Review and Announces Updates to the Ranking System<\/p>\n<p>Read more here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eqoIJOLYO2\">https:\/\/t.co\/eqoIJOLYO2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OWGR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OWGR<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OfficialWorldGolfRanking?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OfficialWorldGolfRanking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cGlYTTM6AT\">pic.twitter.com\/cGlYTTM6AT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OWGR (@OWGRltd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OWGRltd\/status\/2006002010123034705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_bv431pgd4\">The 57-player format allows for 19 groups of three players in LIV\u2019s shotgun system.\u00a0In 2025 the league played with 54 players, with just two wild cards in addition to the teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_u4rfyaxre\">LIV Golf Promotions is set for Jan. 8\u201311 at Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, Fla. The four-day, 72-hole tournament will see the top three players head to LIV while the top 10 and ties will be exempt on the International Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_gh59m11qg\">Eighty-three players are currently registered for the event that <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/pga-tour-problem-liv-golf-2026-qualifier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be deemed unauthorized by the PGA Tour<\/a>, meaning any player with PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions or Korn Ferry status will not be granted a media rights release and is subject to disciplinary action if he elects to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_rtfli4s9x\">\u201cLIV Golf is committed to moving the sport forward by expanding opportunity and access,\u201d LIV Golf CEO Scott O\u2019Neil said in a statement. \u201cWe are opening pathways\u2014creating more chances for top talent to compete in the world\u2019s golf league. Adding another qualifying spot strengthens our field and adds excitement to a season built on opportunity, competition, and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More Golf from Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LIV Golf league is going to 57 players in 2026, with an extra spot being awarded at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-480620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809968630077255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}