Former LIV Golf pro blasts PGA Tour: "Your policy is absurd"

English pro Laurie Canter wrote to the PGA Tour to tell them their policy was 'absurd' after the North American circuit informed him he would be banned for the opening events on the 2025 schedule if he gets a card. 

Canter, 35, has played DP World Tour events and several LIV Golf League tournaments over the past two years. 

He was close to qualifying LIV for the 2024 campaign altogether but missed out in excruciating circumstances by finding the water on the first playoff hole.

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Canter has fallen down the rankings on the Race to Dubai Rankings over the last few weeks after skipping some events for the birth of his second child. 

But it's not out of the question that he could be one of the leading 10 players on the DP World Tour that earns his PGA Tour card for next season.

The only problem is, however, because of his past association with LIV he would have to serve a 12-month ban. 

It would mean he would miss several events at the beginning of next year. 

Canter has never been a member of the PGA Tour, which makes the news even harder to take.

"I got sent a letter in the middle of the year," Canter told bunkered's Ben Parsons. 

"The PGA Tour clarified the position I was in, which was that I was unable to play for a year from the last LIV event I played in which was Vegas. 

"I replied saying, 'Thank you for clarifying that. I think your policy is absurd.'

"And I do think it's absurd. I've never been a member of that tour. How can you ban someone who has never played on your tour? 

"I would understand it if I was a member of their tour but in my context I don’t understand it.

"I am a golfer so I'm pro opportunity but it's a bizarre way of sanctioning someone."

This is could be a moot point if the recent report by the Sun newspaper turns out to be true. 

It has been claimed that the PGA Tour and LIV's backers, the Saudi PIF, have agreed a $1bn deal that would end the hostilities in the elite men's game. 

That deal, which also involves the DP World Tour, would see PIF take an 11 per cent stake in the PGA. 

Read more about that here. 

As for Canter, he believes that it solves absolutely nothing for the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to continue down their own separate paths. 

"I would be in the camp that all the tours need to work together," he added.

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