This former LIV player received a sponsor exemption into the 2025 Rocket Classic
Another former LIV golfer will make a return to the PGA Tour this week.
James Piot, who competed for LIV Golf in 2022 and 2023, received a sponsor exemption into the 2025 Rocket Classic on Monday after a series of field shuffles allowed him into the field. Piot, who grew up outside of Detroit and played collegiately at Michigan State, will make his first PGA Tour start in more than three years and his first at Detroit Golf Club.
Piot won the 2021 U.S. Amateur at Oakmont Country Club and joined LIV Golf for the league's inaugural season, competing for Phil Mickelson's HyFlyers GC. His contract was not renewed after the 2023 season. Since then, a majority of his schedule has been played in Asia, though he did Monday qualify for a Korn Ferry Tour event, the Lecom Suncoast Classic, earlier this year.
He was in the Rocket Classic Monday qualifier before he received a spot in the field this week.
In March, Laurie Canter became the first former LIV golfer to play in a PGA Tour event when he teed it up at the Players Championship.
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