First selection 2023 Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson heads a forged checklist of 12 gamers which have performed in not less than one LIV Golf occasion who’re due to participate within the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, the primary Rolex Collection occasion of the DP World Tour’s 2022-23 season, which will get below means on January 19.
Stenson, who was pressured to surrender the captaincy as quickly because the he introduced his defection to the LIV Golf collection, shall be amongst a big contingent from the breakaway tour that shall be teeing it up at Yas Hyperlinks within the United Arab Emirates, which can trigger a substantial amount of consternation within the corridors of energy on Europe’s high tier tour.
LIV golfers are nonetheless eligible to compete in DP World Tour occasions, however that will change after an unbiased arbitration panel presided over by Sport Resolutions UK meets in London subsequent month to rule on whether or not they are going to be in a position to take action sooner or later. That impending deadline has little question led to the push of entries to approaching DP World Tour occasions from members of the Saudi-backed tour, together with a run of occasions within the Center East that can conclude with the Asian Tour’s Saudi Invitational, to which LIV golfers shall be welcomed with open arms, as it’s funded by the Saudi PIF, which can also be funding the LIV collection.
Along with Stenson, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Patrick Reed, Bernd Wiesberger and Adrian Otaegui are amongst those that have performed on the LIV tour whose names are on the entry checklist for Abu Dhabi, the place the DP World Tour begins its 2023 season. Luke Donald, the person introduced into substitute Stenson as Ryder Cup captain in Rome, can also be on the entry checklist. It’s unlikely that he shall be paired together with his predecessor, though it could be enjoyable to look at the social dynamics on the primary tee in the event that they had been.