{"id":497973,"date":"2026-01-07T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497973\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:20:10","slug":"updated-field-for-liv-promotions-as-players-vie-for-three-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497973\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated field for LIV Promotions as players vie for three cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for three LIV Golf spots begins Thursday in Lecanto, Florida, where the Saudi-backed circuit will host LIV Promotions, its version of Q-School, at Black Diamond Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty players will compete in the multi-faceted, 72-hole stroke-play event, including 20 players who are exempt into the second round. The top 20 and ties after Round 1 will join those players in Friday\u2019s second round with the scores being reset. The top 20 and ties will again advance to Saturday\u2019s third round, where the scores will be reset a second time to set up a 36-hole competition for the three wild-card spots on LIV this season.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in this week\u2019s Promotions event will not come without risk.<\/p>\n<p>The previous two Promotions tournaments were not considered unauthorized events by the PGA Tour, which stated, \u201cBased on the information publicly available regarding the LIV Golf Promotion event, it is determined to be a qualifying event only and not a part of an unauthorized series. Therefore, the LIV Golf Promotion event is not categorized as an \u2018unauthorized tournament.\u2019 This classification is subject to change should the details of the event change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that won\u2019t be the case this week. Sports Illustrated first reported that any player with status under the PGA Tour umbrella would not be granted a conflicting event release and if they competed anyway, they would be subject to disciplinary action. The PGA Tour\u2019s player handbook states, \u201cNo conflicting event releases will be approved for tournaments held in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour also stated that players without any status on its tours would still receive one-year bans from all PGA Tour-sanctioned competition, including 2026 Q-School.<\/p>\n<p>At least one player listed in the initial field has withdrawn after being told he would be suspended a year for participating.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a breakdown of the latest field:<\/p>\n<p><b>EXEMPT INTO ROUND 1 (60)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/schedule\/promotions-event-2026\/groupings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for first-round groupings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2025 Walker Cup and Palmer Cup participants (3):<\/b><br \/>Dominic Clemons, 23, England<br \/>Charlie Forster, 22, England<br \/>Pablo Ereno, 21, Spain<\/p>\n<p><b>Leading 25 players from top 40 in 2025 International Series ranking, not already exempt into Round 2 (7):<\/b><br \/>Pavit Tangkamolprasert, 36, Thailand<br \/>Sarit Suwannarut, 27, Thailand<br \/>Travis Smyth, 30, Australia<br \/>Poom Saksansin, 32, Thailand<br \/>Austen Truslow, 29, U.S.<br \/>MJ Maguire, 33, U.S.<br \/>Denzel Ieremia, 29, New Zealand<\/p>\n<p><b>Winners of 2025 Asian Tour, Japan Tour, KPGA, PGA Tour of Australasia and Sunshine Tour events (20):<\/b><br \/>Luis Carrera, 25, Mexico<br \/>Cory Crawford, 33, Australia<br \/>Matias Sanchez, 27, Australia<br \/>Sadom Kaewkanjana, 27, Thailand<br \/>Oliver Bekker, 41, South Africa<br \/>Nick Voke, 31, New Zealand<br \/>Josh Geary, 41, New Zealand<br \/>Hongtaek Kim, 32, South Korea<br \/>Tomoyo Ikemura, 30, Japan<br \/>Dominic Foos, 28, Germany<br \/>Harrison Crowe, 24, Australia<br \/>Sung Kug Park, 37, South Korea<br \/>Jae Ho Kim, 43, South Korea<br \/>Suteepat Prateeptienchai, 32, Thailand<br \/>Jeon Garam, 30, South Korea<br \/>Louis Albertse, 29, South Africa<br \/>Cameron John, 26, Australia<br \/>Ryo Katsumata, 29, Japan<br \/>Samuel Simpson, 23, South Africa<br \/>Richard T. Lee, 35, Canada<\/p>\n<p><b>LIV invitations (30):<\/b><br \/>Chris Wood, 38, England<br \/>Alex Levy, 35, France<br \/>Matthias Schwab, 31, Austria<br \/>Tom Lewis, 34, England<br \/>Lucas Bjerregaard, 34, Denmark<br \/>Callum Shinkwin, 32, England<br \/>Maximilian Kieffer, 35, Germany<br \/>Julian Perico, 26, Peru<br \/>Max Kennedy, 24, Ireland<br \/>Scotty Kennon, 23, U.S.<br \/>Collin Adams, 23, U.S.<br \/>Yeong-Su Kim, 36, South Korea<br \/>Martin Vorster, 23, South Africa<br \/>Albert Eckhardt, 31, Finland<br \/>Jose Islas, 23, Mexico<br \/>James Ashfield, 24, Wales<br \/>Marcus Plunkett, 31, U.S.<br \/>Pierre Pineau, 26, France<br \/>Chase Koepka, 31, U.S.<br \/>Will Florimo, 26, Australia<br \/>Grant Hirschman, 30, U.S.<br \/>Jonathan Brightwell, 27, U.S.<br \/>Nick Bachem, 26, Germany<br \/>Jack Buchanan, 23, Australia<br \/>Joe Pagdin, 24, England<br \/>Jason Scrivener, 36, Australia<br \/>Wei-Hsuan Wang, 26, Taiwan<br \/>Joel Moscatel, 27, Spain<br \/>Brett Drewitt, 35, Australia<br \/>Clement Sordet, 33, France<\/p>\n<p><b>EXEMPT INTO ROUND 2 (20)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Leading 10 players from top 20 of 2025 International Series ranking (9):<\/b><br \/>Miguel Tabuena, 31, Philippines<br \/>Ollie Schniederjans, 32, U.S.<br \/>Wade Ormsby, 45, Australia<br \/>Danthai Boonma, 29, Thailand<br \/>Jeunghun Wang, 30, South Korea<br \/>Jazz Janewattananond, 30, Thailand<br \/>Soomin Lee, 32, South Korea<br \/>Kieran Vincent, 28, Zimbabwe<br \/>Rattanon Wannasrichan, 30, Thailand<\/p>\n<p><b>Leading player on Asian Tour, Japan Tour, KPGA, PGA Tour of Australasia and Sunshine Tour at the close of entries (5):<\/b><br \/>Bjorn Hellgren, 35, Sweden<br \/>Takanori Konishi, 33, Japan<br \/>Doyeon Hwang, 32, South Korea<br \/>Christopher Wood, 35, Australia<br \/>Herman Loubser, 26, South Africa<\/p>\n<p><b>Players relegated or without a contract following 2025 LIV season (6):<\/b><br \/>Ben Campbell, 34, New Zealand<br \/>Matt Jones, 45, Australia<br \/>Andy Ogletree, 27, U.S.<br \/>Anthony Kim, 40, U.S.<br \/>Max Rottluff, 32, Germany<br \/>John Catlin, 35, U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle for three LIV Golf spots begins Thursday in Lecanto, Florida, where the Saudi-backed circuit will host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-497973","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\/115851665230222758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497973","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=497973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}