LIV Golf League: Ryder Cup hopeful Thomas Pieters among new signings announced for 2023 season | Golf News

Thomas Pieters will play for Bubba Watson’s Vary Goats GC and make his season opener debut in Mexico; Brendan Steele, Danny Lee and Dean Burmester additionally introduced signings for the LIV Golf League in 2023

Six-time DP World Tour winner and Ryder Cup contender Thomas Pieters is among the many gamers confirmed to play within the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League for the 2023 season.

The world No. 34, who completed tied for sixth in his final begin on the Hero Dubai Desert Basic final month, was a part of the successful Continental Europe Hero Cup squad earlier this yr and must be thought-about. for Luke Donald’s Ryder Cup crew in Rome this September.

LIV Golf introduced its first 4 groups final Wednesday and 4 extra the next day, with Pieters confirmed Monday as a part of Bubba Watson’s Vary Goats GC crew forward of the 14-event league season which begins in Mexico on Friday.

Pieters was in rivalry to make a second Ryder Cup look this yr, having impressed on his debut in 2016

The Belgian slammed that he was ineligible to compete within the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational, regardless of his excessive world rating in comparison with others within the area, with Pieters lacking out on a sponsor exemption throughout a occasion the place he completed second to Dustin Johnson in 2017.

Pieters, who will now face an indefinite suspension from the PGA Tour for becoming a member of LIV Golf, tweeted: “Unhappy to overlook my favourite event of the yr. As a result of as world No. I simply could not get in.”

Who additionally signed for LIV?

Three-time PGA Tour winner Brendan Steele was additionally introduced on Monday and joins Phil Mickelson’s HyFlyers GC, whereas the New Zealander Danny Lee was added to the Iron Heads GC led by Kevin Na.

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Dame Laura Davies has welcomed the choice to permit golfers who’ve joined LIV Golf to play the Masters in 2023

Dean Burmestertwo-time DP World Tour winner and present world No. 63, has signed for the all-South African aspect Stinger GC managed by former grand champion Louis Oosthuizen.

The primary eight groups have been confirmed final week, with gamers from the Presidents Cup Mito Pereira And Sebastien Munoz introduced Wednesday as members of the Torque GC.

Huge winners Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed are among the many gamers to return in 2023, having performed within the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational collection final yr.

Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson will function co-captains of the Majesticks crew, which is accomplished by Sam Horsfield.

Gamers who completed within the high 24 within the 2022 Invitational Sequence have been assured spots within the 2023 LIV Golf League.

American Sihwan Kim earned a spot for successful the Asian Tour Order of Benefit, and Zimbabwean Scott Vincent did the identical by successful the Asian Tour Worldwide Sequence Order of Benefit.

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Phil Mickelson says it is ‘outstanding’ how a lot LIV Golf has improved over the previous six months and suggests it is now a pressure within the recreation that will not go away

Full league roster 2023

* Refers back to the captain

GC 4Aces – Dustin Johnson*, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein

CleeksGC -Martin Kaymer*, Graeme McDowell, Bernd Wiesberger, Richard Bland

GC crushers – Bryson DeChambeau*, Paul Casey, Anirban Lahiri, Charles Howell III

GC Fireballs – Sergio Garcia*, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Chacarra

HyFlyersGC – Phil Mickelson*, James Piot, Cameron Tringale, Brendan Steele

GC iron heads -Kevin Na*, Scott Vincent, Sihwan Kim, Danny Lee

Majestic GC -Henrik Stenson*, Lee Westwood*, Ian Poulter*, Sam Horsfield

RangeGoats GC – Bubba Watson*, Thomas Pieters, Harold Varner III, Talor Gooch

Ripping GC – Cameron Smith*, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Jediah Morgan

SmashGC – Brooks Koepka*, Matthew Wolff, Jason Kokrak, Chase Koepka

StingerGC – Louis Oosthuizen*, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Dean Burmester

Torque GC – Joaquin Niemann*, Sebastian Munoz, Mito Pereira, David Puig

When do LIV Golf occasions happen in 2023?

LIV Golf has introduced a 14-event schedule for its 2023 Championship season, with seven international locations internet hosting occasions as a part of an expanded schedule.

The 14 occasions happen weeks outdoors of the boys’s majors and the Ryder Cup, with any potential battle with the excessive occasions of the PGA Tour and the Rolex Sequence tournaments of the DP World Tour additionally averted.

El Camaleon in Mayakoba, Mexico will host the season opener Feb. 24-26, with The Gallery Golf Membership in Tucson the venue for an Arizona-based occasion March 17-19.