The LIV Golf season ended with the team title awarded to Captain Smith's Team Rippers GC in Dallas, after Jon Rahm won the individual title in Chicago. At this point, free from calendar commitments, some of the Teams' members will come to play the next tournaments of the DP World Tour.
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Jon Rahm will take to the field already this weekend in "his" home Open, together with Tyrrell Hatton and Patrick Reed.
Liv Golf, schedule
All three still have to reach the minimum number of tournaments (4) to keep the European Tour card, and the Spaniard is the one furthest behind (the Acciona Open de Espana presented by Madrid will be his first valid tournament, Editor's note).
The following week the three will meet again at the Alffed Dunhill Links Championship, but this time they will be part of a large company. In fact, there are 14 LIV Golf players who will take part in one of the most coveted tournaments on the European Tour calendar.
Most of them (10) entered the field thanks to the invitation received from Johann Rupert, the South African billionaire who is the deus ex machina of the tournament. Rupert also introduced a new exemption category for the Asian Tour, through which two other players from the League led by Greg Norman, David Puig and Eugenio Chacarra, entered the field.
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The South African tycoon is not interested in the rift that, unfortunately, still divides the world of professional golf: he wants to have the big names lined up in his tournament. The Rules of Golf are a set of rules and standard procedures by which the sport of golf should be played.
They are jointly written and administered by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the governing body of golf throughout the world, except in the United States and Mexico, which are governed by the United States Golf Association.
An expert committee, made up of members of the R&A and the USGA, oversees and refines the Rules every four years. The latest revision was effective January 1, 2016. Changes to the Rules of Golf generally fall into two main categories: those that improve understanding of the Rules and those that reduce penalties in certain cases to ensure balance.
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The rulebook, entitled "The Rules of Golf," is published on a regular basis and also includes rules governing amateur status. In Italy, the Federgolf is responsible for supervising competitions by enforcing the rules issued by the R & A, checking that these rules are observed by the Clubs, Associations and their members and managing the resulting sporting justice, protecting their interests abroad.
