Golf Channel · Aug 30, 2022
Attention, Captain Immelman: Here are your Presidents Cup options now...
“Gonna be some book when this is all said and done…”
That was Trevor Immelman tweeting three days ago after reports broke that the International Presidents Cup captain was about to lose two of his automatic selections, world No. 2 Cameron Smith and world No. 19 Joaquin Niemann, as part of the latest batch of defections to LIV Golf.
On Tuesday, that news became official, as Smith and Niemann joined four others, including potential International captain’s picks Marc Leishman and Anirban Lahiri, in joining the Saudi-backed circuit ahead of its tournament this week in Boston. Once they tee it up, those players will be suspended from the PGA Tour, and thus the biennial matches.