LIV Golf star closes in on PGA Tour return after move “didn’t work out”
LIV Golf founder Laurie Canter is set to become the first player to join the PGA Tour after playing on the Breakaway Tour, along with the British player who won the Irish Open.
Lori Canter has taken a big step towards making history as the first LIV Golf player to join the PGA Tour.
Bath-born Canter will be a founding member of the Breakaway Tour when it debuts in 2022, and played in two LIV events earlier this season as a reserve player. But the 34-year-old has since returned to the DP World Tour with a string of excellent results.
Kanter’s strong performances have propelled him to the top of the Race to Dubai rankings, with the top 10 players at the end of the season gaining full membership on the PGA Tour. Canter is ranked 16th in the world, but the five players above him in the season-long merit list already have PGA Tour cards. And with a strong showing on cards in Northern Ireland, Canter is looking to break into the top 10 with just a few events remaining before the DP World Tour Championship in November.
Canter made clear at The Open Championship in July that earning PGA Tour membership was his top priority after leaving LIV Golf.
\”That would be awesome, wouldn\’t it? “I would love to play on the PGA Tour one day,” Kanter said. “But I’ve still got a long way to go.” Along with the second half of the year.
“There are a lot of tournaments with big points up for grabs. To be honest, before I won I was just trying to play a little bit as best I could in my category so that everything would go well for next year. It moved the goalposts a little bit for me. I have something, what to look for, and it would be great. \ “
Liv examined the score of players who left the league and returned to the PGA Tour, helping as Canter and Bernd Weissberger to clarify hundreds of thousands of fines. Canter said that there was a fan of Liv and thinks he can coexist with PGA Tour. “The only thing I can say is, having done both, I think there’s room for both,” Kanter said. “I like both formats. Can I say that? Is it possible to speak like that nowadays, as if you really loved both things? I really do. I am firmly in the middle of the fence, because I really like both. \ “
If Canter starts the PGA Tour card, it may not be a gentle transition to American Highway. He revealed to GolfWeek in June that the tour had informed him he may have to serve a suspension before playing his first event.
“I would have to serve a year from the time of my final LIV event,” he explained. “It would have been a year after LIV Las Vegas (in February). “I thought that was absurd. I have never played on the PGA Tour.
