LIV Golf doesn't officially kick off its 2026 season for another month, but the league will finalize its full roster this weekend.
LIV Golf doesn't officially kick off its 2026 season for another month, but the league will finalize its full roster this weekend. The first LIV Golf Promotions event of the year begins Thursday at Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, Florida, ranked No. 125 among Golfweek's Top 200 Residential Courses in the U.S.
The event is a 72-hole stroke play eliminator tournament of sorts. The top-20 finishers from the first day move on to Friday's second round, at which point the scores will reset and players who automatically qualified for the second day will be added to the field. The top 20 after Friday then advance to a 36-hole shootout over the weekend. After play concludes Sunday, Jan. 11, the top three on the leaderboard will be awarded the final wild card spots on the 2026 LIV Golf roster, which will have 57 players this year instead of 54.
There are some familiar faces among the 87 golfers set to tee it up at Black Diamond Ranch, like three-time PGA Tour winner Anthony Kim and 2016 European Ryder Cup member Chris Wood. Check out a full breakdown of the field.
Players exempt into first round of LIV Golf Promotions
These are the seven players who finished inside the top 40 in the 2025 International Series and were not already members of LIV Golf or exempt into LIV Golf Promotions:
- Pavit Tangkamolprasert, Thailand
- Sarit Suwannarut, Thailand
- Travis Smyth, Australia
- Poom Saksansin, Thailand
- Austen Truslow, USA
- MJ Maguire, USA
- Denzel Ieremia, New Zealand
Every player who won an event on the Asian Tour, Japan Tour, Korean Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia or the Sunshine Tour in 2025 also qualified for the first round of LIV Golf Promotions:
- Luis Carrera, Mexico
- Cory Crawford, Australia
- Matias Sanchez, Australia
- Sadom Kaewkanjana, Thailand
- Oliver Bekker, South Africa
- Nick Voke, New Zealand
- Josh Geary, New Zealand
- Hongtaek Kim, South Korea
- Tomoyo Ikemura, Japan
- Dominic Foos, Germany
- Harrison Crowe, Australia
- Sung Kug Park, South Korea
- Jae Ho Kim, South Korea
- Suteepat Prateeptienchai, Thailand
- Jeon Garam, South Korea
- Louis Albertse, South Africa
- Cameron John, Australia
- Ryo Katsumata, Japan
- Samuel Simpson, South Africa
Three players qualified by being members of the 2025 Walker Cup or Palmer Cup teams:
- Dominic Clemons, England
- Charlie Forster, England
- Pablo Ereno, Spain
These players earned invites to LIV Golf Promotions from the league itself:
- Chris Wood, England
- Alex Levy, France
- Matthias Schwab, Austria
- Tom Lewis, England
- Lucas Bjerregaard, Denmark
- Callum Shinkwin, England
- Max Kieffer, Germany
- Andreas Halvorsen, Norway
- Julian Perico, Peru
- Max Kennedy, Ireland
- Scotty Kennon, USA
- Collin Adams, USA
- Yeong-Su Kim, South Korea
- Martin Vorster, South Africa
- Albert Eckhardt, Finland
- Jose Islas, Mexico
- James Ashfield, Wales
- MJ Daffue, South Africa
- Marcus Plunkett, USA
- Pierre Pineau, France
- Chase Koepka, USA
- Will Florimo, Australia
- Grant Hirschman, USA
- Anthony Quayle, Australia
- Jonathan Brightwell, USA
- Nick Bachem, Germany
- Jack Buchanan, Australia
- Joe Pagdin, England
- Jason Scrivener, Australia
- Wei-Hsuan Wang, Chinese-Taipei
- Joel Moscatel, Spain
- Andrew Kozan, USA
- Brett Drewitt, Australia
- Clement Sordet, France
Players exempt into second round of LIV Golf Promotions
These are the 10 players who finished in the top 20 in the international Series not already members of LIV Golf:
- Miguel Tabuena, Philippines
- Ollie Schniederjans, USA
- Wade Ormsby, Australia
- Danthai Boonma, Thailand
- Jeunghun Wang, South Korea
- Jazz Janewattananond, Thailand
- Soomin Lee, South Korea
- Kieran Vincent, Zimbabwe
- Rattanon Wannasrichan, Thailand
These were the leading players from the Asian Tour, Japan Tour, Korean Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia and Sunshine Tour at the close of entries into LIV Golf Promotions:
- Bjorn Hellgren, Sweden
- Takanori Konishi, Japan
- Doyeon Hwang, South Korea
- Christopher Wood, Australia
- Herman Loubser, South Africa
These players were relegated from LIV Golf in 2025. This is their final chance to earn a contract for the 2026 season:
- Ben Campbell, New Zealand
- Matt Jones, Australia
- Andy Ogletree, USA
- Anthony Kim, USA
- Max Rottluff, Germany
- John Catlin, USA
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: LIV Golf Promotions 2026 field: Three LIV Golf roster spots on the line
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