Jason Logan: LIV golfers can play the Masters, teeing up some awkward moments
and to a lesser extent the PGA Championship, are handcuffed by their field criteria and/or qualification processes, and therefore featured LIV Golf members in 2022, the Masters is an invitational tournament owned and operated by Augusta National. That means its committee can do whatever it pleases, and there was some thought the club might flex its considerable muscle and exclude those who left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.
“Regrettably, recent actions have divided men’s professional golf by diminishing the virtues of the game and the meaningful legacies of those who built it,” read part of the statement released by the club. “Although we are disappointed in these developments, our focus is to honor the tradition of bringing together a preeminent field of golfers this coming April.”
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