LIV Golf’s ‘Free Agency’ and Offseason Process Explained

Earlier this week, we talked about the new TGL’s foray into team-sport rules with a shot clock, timeouts, and a referee. Now, we’re getting more details on LIV Golf’s version of free agency, which is a combination of the pro sports model and the transfer system that has taken the college sports world by storm.

LIV announced its three-phase system that will account for player movement among its teams. Despite the league’s future being unknown while the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) negotiate to complete June’s framework agreement to join forces, LIV is taking a business-as-usual approach for 2024.

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First, the top-24 players in the 2023 standings whose contracts are expiring will receive an automatic offer to remain with their existing team. They can either accept or decline the offer. Declining it will put them into free agency.

Phase two is free agency itself. Players from the top 24 who elect free agency will join those who placed between 25-44 in the standings with expiring contracts from their team. Trades are also allowed during this period. Phase two will continue until there are just four roster spots remaining among the league’s 12 teams.

That leaves anyone finishing outside the top 24 in 2023 with an expiring contract in jeopardy of having to re-qualify to join the circuit.

Pat Perez, Graeme McDowell could be gone as LIV Golf opens offseason of free agency and trades.

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That’s where phase three comes into play. The four remaining slots will be awarded to:

• The winner of the International Series Rankings
• The top-three finishers in LIV Golf Promotions, which takes place next month.

Players who finished outside the top 44 in the standings were relegated and must re-qualify through the LIV Golf Promotions tournament. It was announced earlier this week that PGA Tour players are eligible to compete in that qualifying event.

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