We're deep into golf's major season, and these days — in addition to the opportunity for career-defining and legacy-creating victories — that means it's time for debating LIV players' right to compete in golf's most prestigious tournaments.
Short version: LIV Golf players are enjoying mammoth checks for playing three-round, no-cut tournaments. But that money comes with a cost: Pathways to majors for LIV players are narrow to nonexistent. Since LIV isn't sanctioned by the Official World Golf Rankings, which the majors use to fill out their fields, there's no way for LIV players to win their way into majors if they play only on the LIV tour.