LIV Golf has just announced the final list of players who will participate in the final of its School, which will take place next week, from December 8 to 10, at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club course. It was highly anticipated news to check the allure that the Saudi league could really exert on some of the players from the second and third tier of the DP World Tour or the PGA Tour. Certainly, we cannot talk about a call effect, far from it. Allure, just the right amount. In fact, less than 60 players will play the first round.
The big surprise, in Spanish terms, is the presence of Luis Masaveu, a Madrid amateur who played the last Open de España and who was part of the national team that participated in the Amateur World Championship which was held precisely on the same course that will host these LIV Golf Promotions. Masaveu thus joins Álvaro Quirós and Gonzalo Fernández Castaño.
Beyond the Spaniards, the most relevant names are Lucas Bjerregaard, Victor Dubuisson, Jason Dufner, Jeff Overton, Scott Hend, Chris Stroud or Tapio Pulkkanen, all players who are not exactly going through the best moments of their career. The only golfer from the European Circuit who kept his card this year and has signed up for the LIV school is Kalle Samooja, who goes directly to the second day.
¿En qué consiste la Escuela de LIV Golf y quién la puede jugar?
Remember that the LIV School is played over three days and four rounds. After the first round, a cut will be made with the top twenty. After the second, to which some exempt players join, the top 20 will also qualify for the final definitive day that will be played over 36 holes. The top three finishers, without ties, in that final round, as the results will be reset, will earn the LIV Golf card for 2024.
