R&A places LIV Golf players in The Open Top dog sand trap

The Imperial and Antiquated changed the exemption classifications for The Open, yet no concessions were made to LIV Golf.

With no world positioning focuses accessible to players on the Saudi breakaway visit, it is turning out to be progressively challenging for them to qualify by means of that course, despite the fact that as previous significant victors, Jon Rahm, Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Streams Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson as of now have places in the field for Illustrious Troon in July.

Other LIV golfers ensured spots without qualifying are Tyrrell Hatton, Dignitary Burmester, Adrian Meronk, Joaquin Niemann, Louis Oosthuizen and David Puig.

As relations keep on defrosting between the beforehand fighting gatherings because of a consolidation agreement between the PGA Visit and LIV, there had been ideas the R&A could consider LIV golfers, especially after its CEO Greg Norman kept in touch with players on Tuesday to say it would as of now not be chasing after its long fight to get world positioning focuses.

Aces champion Rahm – one of three LIV golfers with a success in the last five majors – hated the rankings before he took the action in December.

“I will return to what I said quite a while back. I didn’t think it was a decent framework in those days,” said the Spaniard in front of LIV Golf Hong Kong, which starts on Friday.

“Regardless, the additional time goes on, the more it discredits.”

The main change made by the R&A is the decrease of the exemption time frame for new bosses to the age of 55.

Past heroes can in any case play until the age of 60 – Tom Watson broadly verged on winning a sixth Claret Container only seven weeks before his 60th birthday celebration at Turnberry in 2009.

Other changes will see players contending on the Asian Visit, the Japan Golf Visit, the PGA Visit through Australasia and the Daylight Visit ready to qualify by means of one of the main five openings on the Global League Positioning rundown.

An exemption has likewise been laid out for the Africa Novice champion, with South African Altin Van Der Merwe going to this year in the wake of winning the debut occasion a month ago.