Robopz

Semi retired Ex 4th tier, 4th estate golf type who occasionally got in the back door. Now just Golf stats & analysis beyond the norm. Dave, The Woodlands

[Robopz @Robopz]

Ex-LIV Golf Players - Projected DPWT Status
Updated 11/11/2026

With the completion of DPWT Q-School, we now have a better picture of how many and which ex-LIV players have status with DPWT in 2027. 2 of 6 final stage players earned DPWT cards: Ballester and Byeong Hun An.

OVERALL: TOP SECTION
20 Players (+1 maybe) have a category available for DPWT membership in 2027. 9 of those were already members, so that's an increase of 11 or 12

Most of that 11 (2nd group in Top Section) are past members with "Legends" category membership available - Garcia, Oosthuizen, Poulter, Grace, McDowell, Westwood, Casey, Schwartzel & Kaymer. Then add in DeChambeau with a major exemption along with Ballester and Ben An. Elvis Smylie "might" have some medical starts available on the DPWT, otherwise he has some HPT Status.

DPWT Entry Deadline is Monday, Nov 16.

BOTTOM SECTION:
This group of 37 have no DPWT categories... However DPWT is reportedly offering select players in that group some guaranteed Sponsor Exemption starts on the DPWT. I do not have any firm information who will actually be included in that program. But have shaded 2 groups of them marked as likely & possible. Not all marked as a possible SE deal will get one... there's simply too many players for too few spots (could be 120-140 total SE's available to this group)

Asian Tour used to be a fallback to relegated LIV players, but with basically the entire league being relegated, we don't know how that is going to work going forward. I have noted ~18 players who have known "category" status on Asian and other tours for 2027. If Asia take any additional LIV players under a separate category, those would be in addition.

NOTE: Lot of detail and small type here... so view in new tab, or save and view to enlarge the graphic. And as always, I invite corrections or additional information if you have anything, post here or DM. I'll update on a later pass, if there is one.

Thanks @ebajek85, @Irish_On_Tour, @InkblotSports, @flushingitgolf and a bunch of others for past help on this along the way...

[Robopz @Robopz]

@BvsDc50784 @RobertLusetich He's definitely got THAT working for him... 😉

[Cameron Jourdan @Cam_Jourdan]

Joel Dahmen and Mark Hubbard had a drone deliver them Chipotle during Tuesday's practice round at the Austin Championship

[Robopz @Robopz]

@LindaRenner11 @RobertLusetich 💯 agree with this part.

History tells us odds are stacked against "legacies" in general. It's not an indictment of their talent, it's just a numbers game where so very few break thru.

But that doesn't mean he will or he won't. Could be a loooong time before we know.

[Robopz @Robopz]

This is interesting... I thought there was some kind of rule like this... but wasn't sure...

[TalkBirdieToMe @TalkBirdie_ToMe]

Had Rory McIlroy used his hand to move the grass back, potentially no penalty would have applied explains international rules official David Blake to @nickohern and @MarkAllenGolf on @TalkBirdie_ToMe .

[Robopz @Robopz]

@SGuisgond @RobertLusetich To be fair... you absolutely could NOT say something like that about Scottie Scheffler... 😏

[Brentley Romine @BrentleyGC]

@Robopz @RobertLusetich He won an AJGA invitational and was just top 10 at Junior Players. When he stops being so hard on himself and matures more, he's got the physical tools to be really good. Elite tempo and chipping.

[Robopz @Robopz]

I think you might want to double check that... other than his dad's tournament (Memorial), Gary wasn't doing it with a lot of SEs, cuz he didn't need them.

Bottom line... Superstar nepo babies do have all kinds of advantages... but that doesn't extend to earning exempt PGAT tour cards. They have to earn that status via their own accomplishments, not Dad's.

[Robopz @Robopz]

@TheGriffinScott @RobertLusetich No doubt Charlie will have many doors open to him... but that doesn't get you on Tour... not even close.

Gary earned his card via Q-school... Sam via KFT (Web-com Tour then).

[Byeong Hun An @ByeongHunAn]

Found a new job. @DPWorldTour here I come

[Robopz @Robopz]

@RobertLusetich I've not seen him play enough to have any opinion on any of that... I'm more going off his WAGR rankings... 1750+ at this point in his career just isn't screaming "future pro"...

[Robopz @Robopz]

@Cap_tain_Ron @ProGolfCritic He wasn't under contract, but his wearing 4Aces gear in Dubai was indicating he was gonna re-up... and maybe he was until he got the win and bunch more possibilities presented themselves... (the LIV gear was gone by Qatar).

[Robopz @Robopz]

@Cap_tain_Ron @ProGolfCritic Technically Reed was NOT with LIV in January. His contract with LIV had already expired (sometime in 2025)... Thus he was "unaffiliated" when he teed it up in January.

[Robopz @Robopz]

@EnduranceAgency @JMN2323 Duh... of course arbitration isn't the same process and procedures... But it absolutely IS an adversarial legal process that yields a legally binding decision/verdict...

That's the point @JMN2323 (Professor of Sports Law) was making to Lee above...

[Robopz @Robopz]

Course difficulty and/or weather matters in SG systems only to the extent they might effect scoring spreads (one way or the other). But that effect is generally immaterial in the big picture. But those factors have even less, if any, material effect in point systems. It's about players performance relative to other players... not the course or weather.

[Robopz @Robopz]

{{{Cough-cough}}}... 😏

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[Conrad Golf Rankings @jerichsen66]

@Robopz @joshwlees @bunkeredgolf Spoken like a true Strokes Gained deisciple...

[Robopz @Robopz]

You're obfuscating the issue... again... It's not now, nor ever has been about SG vs Points ranking systems. That's a different argument in which you know we already agree (DataGolf does too)... so I don't know why you keep pounding on it.

The issue being discussed... ranking systems measure the relative performance of players against each other... While that can be done in different ways, the difficulty of the course they play on, or weather played in, is materially irrelevant.

[Robopz @Robopz]

@jerichsen66 Just wanted to point out DG saying the same thing.