LIV Golf will permit participant trades by a switch window for the 2024 season, the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit introduced on Wednesday.
In the league that includes 12 groups, in the course of the low season, groups can commerce gamers from their present rosters, offering each groups approve, and there will even be a mid-season buying and selling window.
“The league has launched the sport’s first-ever transfer window with player movement, free agency and new team rosters in progress as momentum builds for LIV Golf’s second full season teeing off in 2024,” a press release mentioned.
Players who end within the Top 24 Lock Zone of the Individual Standings on the finish of the common season are assured a chance to play within the 2024 LIV Golf League.
In Phase One, gamers within the Top 24 whose contracts expire on the finish of 2023 are supplied a minimal one-year contract extension by their current group. A participant who decides to not settle for the supply will grow to be a free agent.
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Phase Two is the place free company begins, and gamers who completed twenty fifth to forty fourth are additionally free brokers, groups will not be obliged to re-sign free brokers however can as an alternative create an open spot.
The open spot permits a group to signal a Top 24 participant who opted totally free company, signal any participant within the open zone, signal a participant from one other group if each groups agree or signal an exterior participant not a member of any 2023 group roster.
In June, a merger was introduced between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV, whose participant roster contains main champions Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Cameron Smith.
In October, LIV Golf’s bid to have its gamers earn rating factors was unanimously rejected by the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) attributable to issues concerning the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit’s format.