13 Australasians attempt LIV Golf Q School
Australian Jed Morgan – gets his chance to return to LIV Golf – image LIV Golf
This Friday the 8th of December sees the first Q School for LIV Golf being run at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the UAE with the LIV Promotions event established to provide a means of qualifying for the LIV Golf Series next season and to perhaps convince the world golfing authorities that if LIV has a genuine means of qualifying for their Tour then its quest for World Ranking points to be attributed to its events becomes more viable.
Whether that is the end result or not, the prospect of three LIV Golf cards being handed out at the completion of 72 holes on Sunday is an incentive too good to miss for the 60 players who will enter round one and the 13 more who are exempt from round one but will join the leading 20 players from round one in round two.
With the scores reset after the opening round the leading twenty players will then play 36 holes on the final day to determine who gets the potentially lucrative right to play LIV Golf in 2024 where just for finishing last in each 48-man event, a golfer earns $US140,000 or so.
The 10 Australasians in round one are Lachlan Barker, Austin Bautista, Andrew Dodt, Scott Hend, Brendan Jones, Zach Murray, Kerry Mountcastle (NZ) Ryan Ruffels, Travis Smyth and Kevin Yuan.
They will be joined in round two by fellow Australasians, Ben Campbell (NZ), Wade Ormsby and Jed Morgan.
Morgan, Ormsby and Yuan have all played LIV Golf events previously although Yuan and Ormsby had their contracts cut short as replacements were signed.
The leading three players after 72 holes, earn the right to join LIV in early 2024 while those finishing 4th to 10th gain access to the lucrative Asian Tour International Series events.
