Johnson leaves PGA Tour for LIV Invitational
Previous world No 1 Dustin Johnson said Tuesday he has left the US PGA Tour to play in the Saudi-subsidized LIV Golf Invitational Series, which starts outside London this week.
The choice actually governs the American double cross significant champ out of partaking in the Ryder Cup, which sets the United States in opposition to Europe like clockwork.
Johnson was talking at a public interview at Centurion Club in front of the debut occasion in the series, what begins on Thursday.
The world number 15 had said in February he was focused on playing on the PGA Tour, which has denied discharges for individuals to play in the LIV Golf opener - which will conflict with the Canadian Open.
Be that as it may, Johnson has now stopped, following a comparative choice by veteran US golf player Kevin Na, who is likewise in the field for the occasion in St Albans.
The 37-year-old, who has won more than $74 million on the PGA Tour, said: "At the present time, I've surrendered my participation from the Tour."
Johnson, who is supposedly getting $150 million in appearance expenses to play in the new series, said anticipating the results of his decision was troublesome.
At the point when found out if he had picked cash over his country, he said he had picked "what's best for myself as well as my loved ones".
"The Ryder Cup is extraordinary and something has most certainly made a big difference to me," added Johnson, who won each of the five of his matches in the United States' record 19-9 win over Europe at Whistling Straits last year.
"I'm pleased to say that I've addressed my nation and ideally I will be able to rehash that, yet I don't make the principles."
One of the vulnerabilities has been whether players who split with laid out visits to join LIV Golf - which doesn't as of now offer positioning places - would in any case be permitted to play in golf's four majors.
Previous Masters and US Open top dog Johnson can in any case play in the competitions, which are independently represented, because of his heavenly record.
The United States Golf Association affirmed on Tuesday that players participating in the LIV opener would be allowed to play in the following week's US Open in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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It has been accounted for that Spain's Sergio Garcia and South Africans Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Branden Grace, who are in the 48-man field for the opening LIV occasion, have additionally left the PGA Tour.
Six-time significant victor Phil Mickelson affirmed on Monday he would play in St Albans in a significant upset for the coordinators.
Mickelson has not played since the distribution of remarks in February, wherein he condemned the PGA Tour and LIV Golf's Saudi benefactors.
The PGA Tour has cautioned of disciplinary activity for players who play in the LIV series yet the DP World Tour, previously the European Tour, has been more murky, saying it was "assessing each solicitation dependent upon the situation".
The new series, which contains eight competitions this year, is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's sovereign abundance store.
Players will contend as people and groups for eye-watering satchels of $25 million in each of the seven customary season occasions, played more than 54 openings with no cut.
The eighth and last occasion will be a group title, with a complete award asset of $50 million.
Absolution International has said the series is an illustration of Saudi Arabia endeavoring to "sportswash" its basic liberties record.
The golf players were addressed on the common liberties issue on Tuesday, including the 2018 homicide of writer Jamal Khashoggi.
A US knowledge evaluation observed that the Gulf realm's true ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed container Salman, "supported" an activity to catch or kill Khashoggi, a writer who was condemning of Saudi's rulers.
Saudi authorities deny this and say that his killing in the realm's Istanbul department - which ignited overall shock - was a "rebel" activity.
"The Khashoggi circumstance, we as a whole concur that was indefensible," 2010 US Open hero Graeme McDowell told journalists on Tuesday.
"Nobody will contend that reality except for we're golf players. We are not lawmakers. I realize you all disdain that articulation, however we are truly not, sadly. We are proficient golf players.
"To involve the sport of golf as a way for them to get to where they need to be and they have the assets to speed up that experience, I think we are glad to help them on that excursion utilizing the sport of golf."