LIV Golfers ‘have next season’s PGA Tour memberships CANCELED with Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and other rebels told in email that they do not comply with traditional event’s requirements’
- Mickelson, DeChambeau are a number of LIV Golfers who never turned in their tour cards when they left for the Saudi-backed tour
- A letter from the PGA Tour informed them their memberships were revoked
- Mickelson says his lifetime membership shouldn’t be taken back after he won 20 tournaments over the course of his career
After hoping to remain eligible to play on the PGA Tour calendar, the LIV Golf defectors who hadn’t turned in their tour cards have had them revoked.
In a letter from the PGA Tour obtained by Sports Illustrated, players who hadn’t resigned their membership when leaving for LIV – such as Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Pat Perez – were informed their memberships had been revoked for the 2022-23 season.
‘The terms of your contractual commitments to LIV Golf prohibit you from satisfying the material obligations set forth in the regulations and make clear that you have no intention to, and indeed cannot comply with these requirements of membership in the PGA Tour,’ said the letter written by Kirsten Burgess, the Tour’s vice president, competition administration.
The PGA Tour has informed Phil Mickelson and other LIV golfers their tour cards are revoked
Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau never officially resigned their cards when they left
‘The Tour cannot enter into a membership agreement with a player when, as here, it reasonably anticipates the player will not perform the material obligations under that agreement.
‘Accordingly, your PGA Tour membership cannot and will not be renewed for the 2022-2023 PGA TOUR season.’
Mickelson has previously stated that his lifetime membership, which he earned by winning a minimum of 20 tournaments, should not be revoked by joining LIV.
‘I’ve worked really hard to earn a lifetime exemption. And I don’t want to give that up,’ Mickelson said at a news conference ahead of LIV’s first event back in June.
‘I don’t believe I should have to. I don’t know what that means for the future but I don’t know what’s going to happen. But I’ve earned that and I don’t plan on just giving it up.”
Mickelson and DeChambeau have filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, which was joined by LIV Golf last week.
Some golfers, including Phil and Bryson, are part of an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour
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