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Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
How this former LIV golfer qualified for the PGA Tour's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass
Laurie Canter is set to mark a significant milestone in the unification of professional men's golf in a couple weeks. The 35-year-old Englishman fell in a playoff Sunday at the DP World Tour's Investec South African Open, which was shortened to 54 holes with Canter and Dylan Naidoo facing off in a sudden-death playoff Sunday to determine a winner. Naidoo won, but Canter's finish is enough to propel him inside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking come Monday's update. Here's why it matters: all top-50 players in OWGR are exempt into the PGA Tour's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. That means Canter will be eligible to tee it up in Ponte Vedra Beach, and if he plays, he'll become the first former LIV player to compete in a strictly PGA Tour event (non-major or non-co-sanctioned event). Canter played last year at the Genesis Scottish Open and Open Championship. 🚨NEWSFLASHBut note that a win is still well worth fighting a win today, @LaurieCanter could jump as high as #32 in #OWGR and he will be virtually guaranteed to qualify for @TheMasters as well... 💪 #InvestecSAOpen — Nosferatu (@VC606) March 2, 2025 Canter played for LIV Golf each of its first three seasons, first as a founding member of Cleeks GC in 2022 then as a reserve in 2023. He then competed in LIV Golf's first two events of 2024 in Mexico and Mayakoba, and he confirmed last year his start date for competing on the Tour would be backdated from his last unauthorized start, which the PGA Tour confirmed. That means as of last month, Canter was eligible to compete in PGA Tour events, and that start will seemingly come in a couple weeks in Florida. It has been more than a year since he last competed for LIV Golf, and with unification seemingly around the corner between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, it would be hard to imagine Canter isn't in the field at TPC Sawgrass. If he plays, it will be his first non-major or non-co-sanctioned event start on Tour and his ninth overall. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: How this former LIV golfer will play at the 2025 Players Championship
NBC Sports
02-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
This player set to become first former LIV Golf member to qualify for The Players
Despite losing in a playoff Sunday afternoon at the DP World Tour's Investec South African Open, Laurie Canter will move inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking. It's a notable jump for a couple reasons. Canter, who entered this week ranked No. 53 in the world, was tied for the 54-hole lead before the final round was canceled at 9:10 a.m. local time because of flooding at Durban Country Club. The 35-year-old Englishman and South Africa's Dylan Naidoo then faced off in a sudden-death playoff a few hours later, and Naidoo captured his maiden DPWT title with birdie. A win by Canter would've marked his second of the year following a victory in Bahrain last month and pushed him as high as No. 32 in the OWGR. He is currently third in the Race to Dubai. The runner-up still, though, still allowed him to climb into position to qualify for next week's Players Championship, which annually exempts all top-50 players as of the Monday before tournament week. If he plays, Canter would become the first former LIV player to tee it up in a non-major, non-co-sanctioned PGA Tour event. (Canter played last year's Genesis Scottish Open.) And if he stays inside the top 50 by March 30, he'll receive an invitation into his first Masters. Canter has played four career majors, three of them Open Championships; he's yet to miss a cut. He's already into this summer's Open at Royal Portrush. Canter was a founding member of LIV Golf, competing for Cleeks GC in 2022. He then served as a reserve in 2023 before making two early starts last year. His last LIV appearance, though, came just over a year ago in Las Vegas. Typically, the PGA Tour has suspended players for one calendar year from the end of their last LIV start.
USA Today
12-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Bryan Newman earns spot in field at Royal Portrush after 2025 Africa Amateur Championship win
Bryan Newman earns spot in field at Royal Portrush after 2025 Africa Amateur Championship win It didn't come easy, but Bryan Newman earned his spot in the field at the 2025 Open Championship on Saturday. The 17-year-old from South Africa won the 2025 Africa Amateur Championship at Leopard Creek in his home country, punching his ticket for the final men's major championship of the year. Newman began the day with a five-shot lead and saw that shrink through the afternoon, but he was clutch down the stretch and finished at 8-under 280 for the week to win by two shots over Zimbabwe's 'It feels really amazing. It's so special. To do it here at Leopard Creek makes it even more special," Newman said. 'I definitely felt nervous down the last but I was just trying to make a lot of pars out there, which I did. I made a couple of mistakes down the stretch but luckily I had enough of a cushion." With the win, Newman earned spots in the field at Royal Portrush, the Amateur Championship, the Alfred Dunhill Championship, the Investec South African Open and the Waterfall City Tournament of Champions. It will be the first start in a major for Newman. 'Yeah, it's really exciting," he said. "I can't wait, and I'm really looking forward to it."
