Peter Uihlein, who has played in LIV Golf tournaments since 2023, played two rounds at a DP World Tour first-stage qualifying school event this week and was disqualified.
Uihlein’s DQ came at Huddersfield Golf Club in Huddersfield, England. He opened with rounds of four-over 74 and three-over 73, then was booted from the event after he failed to show for his third round, Bunkered’s Josh Lees reported.
The disqualification comes as the future of LIV Golf remains unclear. Two weeks ago, the league finished its fifth season of play, but it’s now trying to manage the loss of its primary backer, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund. LIV CEO Scott O’Neil has said the league has received a signed term sheet with a lead investor, but has yet to name it, saying there’s “a very compressed timeline to get the deal done.”
In light of the uncertainty, O’Neil also said he was confident that LIV had “a critical mass of the right players” for the future. A commitment deadline exists, though, he said, but didn’t say when that would be.
“We have work to do,” O’Neil said. “We have things we have to accomplish. There are hurdles we have to jump over. It’s a very complex transaction we’ll have to deliver.
“But man, I wouldn’t bet against us.”
Uihlein was one of five LIV pros playing in DP World Tour first-stage qualifying school — at the Huddersfield event were Luis Masaveu and Josele Ballester, and next week at Golf-und Country Club Seddiner See in Michendorf, Germany, Michael La Sasso and Yosuke Asaji are signed up. Multiple outlets have also reported that the DP World Tour will resume fining and suspending its players who compete in LIV events; in February, eight players were given conditional releases.
La Sasso’s entry is interesting. He won LIV’s season-ending event, and afterward, he said he wasn’t sure where he’d play next.
“I’m honestly not sure,” he said. “I’m ready to go back home and spend some time around my family and the people I love.”
Uihlein has played in 131 DP World Tour events since turning pro in 2012, winning once, at the 2013 Madeira Islands Open, and he’s played in 128 PGA Tour events. This season with LIV, he finished 22nd in the season-points race.
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