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Masters Tournament Will Let LIV Golf Players Compete in 2023

The decision by Augusta National Golf Club is an interim victory for the upstart circuit, but other troubles loom.

Dustin Johnson, left, a former Masters champion and current player on the LIV Golf circuit, with Billy Horschel on the first fairway at Augusta National Golf Course in April.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

Augusta National Golf Club will allow members of the breakaway LIV Golf league to compete in the Masters Tournament, the first men’s golf major of 2023.

The decision by the private club, which organizes the invitational tournament and has exclusive authority over who walks its hilly, pristine course each April, is an interim victory for LIV, the upstart operation bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund to much of the golf establishment’s fury.