LIV Golf

The 38-year-old, a 19-year Tour veteran, is in the field for next week's LIV event at Centurion Club outside London.

If I exercise my right to choose where and when I play golf, then I cannot remain a PGA Tour player without facing disciplinary proceedings and legal action from the PGA Tour. I hope the current policies change and I’ll be able to play on the PGA Tour again.” However, to remain a PGA Tour player, I must give up my right to make choices about my career.

The 19-year veteran wrote of his love for the PGA Tour and the opportunities it provided but the upstart league was too much to pass up.

And I don’t want to be in a legal battle with the Tour, where I worked for the past 19 years. “Another reason I am doing this is I have a family,” he said. “However, to remain a PGA Tour player, I must give up my right to make choices about my career. “It was a very difficult decision to make,” Na said. He did say he would pursue other playing opportunities around the world, citing Asia, specifically South Korea and Japan. “Recent developments in the professional golf world have given me a chance to reconsider my options.

Golfer Kevin Na announced he is resigning from the PGA Tour on Saturday and will instead participate in the LIV Golf Invitational Series beginning next week ...

I am thrilled to begin the next chapter in my career, starting next week at the inaugural LIV Invitational series event in London. I hope you'll continue to support me." I hope the current policies change and I'll be able to play on the PGA Tour again." "If I exercise my right to choose where and when I play golf, then I cannot remain a PGA Tour player without facing disciplinary proceedings and legal action from the PGA Tour.

Na is the first publicly known golfer to resign from the PGA due to the opposition toward the Saudi Arabian-backed startup golf league.

Na said he would not rule out returning to the PGA if the Tour changed its policies. The PGA Tour has not announced what the possible discipline could be, though commissioner Jay Monahan has threatened to ban anyone that participates in LIV Golf events. If I exercise my right to choose where and when I play golf, then I cannot remain a PGA Tour player without facing disciplinary proceedings and legal action from the PGA."

The world No 33, Kevin Na, has said he wants 'the freedom to play wherever I want' before the inaugural event of the Saudi Arabia-backed tour.

I hope the current policies changes and I’ll be able to play on the PGA Tour again.” However, to remain a PGA Tour player, I must give up my right to make these choices about my career. Recent developments in the professional golf world have given me a chance to reconsider my options.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has previously threatened Tour players with suspensions and possibly a lifetime ban, if they decide to play LIV Golf events.

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DUBLIN, Ohio — If the PGA Tour reiterated to player agents this week at the Memorial Tournament that their clients had to “pick a side,” between remaining a ...

Do whatever you want, but I don’t think you have to resign from the tour to do this.” “Look, I get it for Kevin. He’s never been … he’s qualified for the Open Championship a few times and not gone over. He obviously sees the LIV Golf tour is the place he’s going to play on going forward,” Rory McIlroy, a member of the PGA Tour Policy Board, said, trying to guess Na's motivation for taking such a drastic step. I hope the current policies change and I’ll be able to play on the PGA Tour again.” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has indicated that a player who competes in the upstart tour would face stiff penalties, including a suspension or a lifetime ban. “I am sad to share that I have chosen to resign from the PGA Tour,” said Na, who is ranked 33 in the world and has won five tour titles in more than 450 starts.

Piot, the 2021 U.S. Amateur, has agreed to play in the nascent tour's initial events. "It's an opportunity," he said.

Here’s James Piot now: “Every once in a while, you get caught up in the process, and you have to take a second a look back say, ‘Holy crap, what? Piot was out there, late in what appeared to be an impending U.S. Amateur loss to Austin Greaser, a junior from the University of North Carolina. Piot was 3-down with eight holes to play. On Friday, Piot was in the final group finishing afternoon play at the Memorial. The sun was low, the crowd was sparse. Obviously, money is a factor, but at the same time, it’s an exciting format and there’s an opportunity to learn from the greats. Then he became the first player since 2008 to win four straight holes on the back nine of the U.S. Amateur championship match. The top amateurs coming out of college — previously the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour’s supply chain — now face the possibility of a very different, very lucrative option. It’s a time for me to play some good golf and develop.” While Piot, who grew up playing public courses near his hometown of Canton, Mich., is listed as an amateur on LIV’s “roster,” he in fact turned professional prior to playing at Colonial two weeks ago. Piot, himself, says such “none of them have been accurate.” For this story, The Athletic couldn’t nail down the exact figure, but can report, via a source, that Piot is indeed locked in to play all seven LIV events leading up to the tour’s season-ending Team Championship at Trump National Doral, which he’ll hope to qualify for. That’s where James Piot is a graduating fifth-year senior from Michigan State, a young man heading off to etch marks on the walls of early professional golf — spots in Monday Qualifiers, pursuit of his Korn Ferry Tour card, maybe some mini-tour starts. Instead, Piot, all of 23 years old, is one of the more unanticipated characters in the extraordinary theater that is LIV Golf’s feral attempt to bulldoze golf’s industrial complex and unseat (or unsettle) both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour (aka the European Tour). Those running the LIV Golf Invitational Series identified Piot as a strategic entrant in its upcoming eight-event season. It’s been speculated that Piot is receiving north of seven figures to participate in the tour, with figures thrown around anywhere from $2 million to $6 million.