Fred Ridley, president of Augusta National, offered the traditional press conference before the Masters and almost simultaneously Augusta made public the criteria for playing Masters in 2024. The main novelty is that golfers from life The door is not closed for them to continue participating in Augusta National next year, but except for important changes in the world ranking scoring system (Saudi Super League tournaments are not counted), it will be difficult for them to play a tournament other than , For example, the six winners who enjoyed Tuesday’s Champions Dinner: Sergio Garcia, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed, and Charl Schwartzel. You should also include cameron smith as a TPC winner in 2022 (exemption is for three years). Therefore, the 18 LIV members who are in Augusta this year must look for other alternatives to enter the Masters (12 are classified first, and tied, in this edition of the tournament, or the first four, and tied, in the US Open , British Open and PGA).
Ridley also explained why he didn’t invite Greg Norman (as a former ‘major’ winner), head of LIV Golf, on the Masters: “We are not giving any invitation to Mr. Norman. The main thing is that I want to focus this week on the Masters competition, on the big players participating, the best players in the world, who, in our decision in December, we made sure that we would meet and be consistent with our invitation criteria. I also want to add that, for the last ten years, Greg Norman I’ve only been here twice, and I think one of them was as a commentator for Sirius Radio.”
Ridley did speak of some détente between PGA Tour golfers and ‘mavericks’: “I noticed that the tone was really good here this week. I noticed that the players were interacting. At the Champions Dinner, I didn’t notice that there was something going on in the world of professional golf that is not normal. So I think, and I hope, that this week maybe people can think in a slightly different direction and change things. I don’t Tell Norman I won’t be invited again .”
Source: La Verdad
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