It had been exactly 1,078 days since Adrian Meronk won on the DP World Tour. He ended that streak in grand fashion by shooting a final-round 68 at the Old Course in St Andrews to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by two shots.
Jon Rahm will be eligible for the 2027 Ryder Cup at Ireland’s Adare Manor after reaching an agreement with the DP World Tour to continue playing its events outside of his LIV Golf commitments.
Australia’s Elvis Smylie is among eight LIV Golf players who have reached a deal with the DP World Tour allowing them to compete on both circuits. But the more significant name is the one missing from the list: Jon Rahm, whose absence throws his 2027 Ryder Cup eligibility into serious doubt.
At LIV Golf’s season opener in Saudi Arabia, Meronk became the winner of the first known men’s professional golf tournament held completely under lights when he dominated LIV Golf Riyadh in wire-to-wire fashion.
Former Australian Open champion Adrian Meronk says part of the reason he went to LIV Golf is that he would have felt “lonely and miserable” in America had he played on the PGA Tour in 2024.
There was no complaining, no bitterness. Carlos Ortiz stood over a pitch shot on the final hole of LIV Golf Houston confident he would win, and certain he would be asked later about the fact he will not be playing in this week’s US Open at Pinehurst.
It is no surprise, as the DP World Tour resumes this week in Dubai, to see the 10 players who qualified for their PGA Tour cards last season planning the months ahead in their own individual ways.
Former Australian Open champion Adrian Meronk instantly put an end to the LIV Golf smoke with a creative Instagram post that shows him “swiping to accept” his PGA Tour card.
The men who have gained their PGA Tour cards through season-long play on the DP World Tour in 2023 – a Pole, a New Zealander, two Frenchmen, a Dane, a Swede, a Scotsman, a Spaniard, a Japanese and a Finn – are definitely the first of their kind.
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