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Golf - LIV Tour Defections


With the controversial LIV Golf tour kicking off in June 2022, you may be wondering how many golfers are defecting from the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour (aka European Tour), and moving to LIV Golf. In this article, we've taken the world's top 40 golfers as at 5 June 2022, and we're tracking which ones are moving across to LIV Golf.

The table below shows how the world's top 40 golfers have changed tours since LIV Golf started.  We've taken world rankings as of 5 June 2022.

Ranking 5 June 2022 July 2022 August 2022 Feb 2023 Dec 2023 Jan 2024
1 Scottie Scheffler          
2 Jon Rahm          
3 Patrick Cantlay          
4 Cameron Smith          
5 Collin Morikawa          
6 Justin Thomas          
7 Viktor Hovland          
8 Rory McIlroy          
9 Sam Burns          
10 Jordan Spieth          
11 Billy Horschel          
12 Xander Schauffele          
13 Hideki Matsuyama          
14 Will Zalatoris          
15 Dustin Johnson          
16 Joaquin Niemann          
17 Matt Fitzpatrick          
18 Tony Finau          
19 Abraham Ancer          
20 Brooks Koepka          
21 Louis Oosthuizen          
22 Sungjae Im          
23 Max Homa          
24 Tyrrell Hatton          
25 Shane Lowry          
26 Daniel Berger          
27 Paul Casey          
28 Bryson DeChambeau          
29 Harris English          
30 Cameron Young          
31 Corey Conners          
32 Kevin Kisner          
33 Jason Kokrak          
34 Kevin Na          
35 Talor Gooch          
36 Patrick Reed          
37 Thomas Pieters          
38 Harold Varner III          
39 Tom Hoge          
40 Tommy Fleetwood          

Legend:

PGA Tour
DP World Tour (European Tour)
LIV Golf




Author: Neil Harris
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