{"id":68753,"date":"2026-03-11T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/liv-golfers-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:58:33","slug":"liv-golfers-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/liv-golfers-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV golfers to remain frozen out of Players Championship, says PGA Tour chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Brian Rolapp: \u2018My brief is to make the PGA Tour better\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>American wants to change structure of regular season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brian Rolapp, the chief executive of the PGA Tour, has dismissed any notion of LIV golfers being afforded entry to the Players Championship as a means of boosting the tournament\u2019s status. The PGA Tour has tried to start a debate over whether the Sawgrass event should be added to the rota of\u00a0majors.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious element that \u00adundermines the Players\u2019 standing is the \u00adinability of LIV players \u2013 such as Bryson DeChambeau and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/jul\/17\/golf-cameron-smith-wins-open-championship-glory-rory-mcilroy\">Cameron Smith, winner of the 2022 Open Championship<\/a> \u2013 to enter. Rolapp made it plain in Florida on Wednesday that the situation will not change any time\u00a0soon. \u201cThat\u2019s not sort of a priority I\u2019ve put on my list,\u201d he said. \u201cSo that\u2019s not something I have considered to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/liv-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief-executive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Rolapp: \u2018My brief is to make the PGA Tour better\u2019 American wants to change structure of regular season Brian Rolapp, the chief executive of the PGA Tour, has dismissed any notion of LIV golfers being afforded entry to the Players Championship as a means of boosting the tournament\u2019s status. The PGA Tour has tried &#8230; <a title=\"LIV golfers to remain frozen out of Players Championship, says PGA Tour chief\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/liv-golfers-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LIV golfers to remain frozen out of Players Championship, says PGA Tour chief\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}