Golf’s top-ranked Scottie Scheffler clearly is still not comfortable with the overnight news that reaffirms fellow US-born LIV players are fully eligible to qualify for the Ryder Cup.
The PGA of America that run the Ryder Cup when the bienniel competition is conducted in the States has reinforced their decision that all US-born players, whether members of LIV or the PGA Tour, will face no barrier in seeking to qualify for next year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Park Black.
Unlike others, Scheffler is not about to change his views that LIV players stating, and as he did earlier this year in speaking with the Golf Channel, that while there should be ‘a pathway for them it should be without some sort of contribution to the (PGA Tour)”.
“I think there’s a different level of player that left – you had some guys that left our tour and then sued our tour, that wasn’t really in great taste. And then you had some other guys that just left and they wanted to do something different, and everybody made their decision, and I have no bad blood toward the guys that left.
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“But a path toward coming back, it wouldn’t be a very popular decision, I think, if they just came back like nothing ever happened. They did kind of leave and – they left our tour, that’s just part of it.
“There should be a pathway back for them, but they definitely shouldn’t be able to come back without any sort of contribution to the tour.”
The PGA Tour has no involvement whatsoever with the running of the Ryder Cup but greeted this further confirmation from the PGA of America by issuing the following statement: “Going forward, all LIV Golf players are eligible for the PGA Championship and any American player who qualifies for the Ryder Cup on points or is added to the US team as a captain’s pick is eligible to compete.
“This is consistent with LIV Golf players competing in the PGA Championship the past two years. Brooks Koepka was a member of the US Ryder Cup team last year.”
