It’s not quite DP World Tour season yet, but Patrick Reed just earned his return on the PGA Tour.
Reed, speaking ahead of this week’s Spanish Open in Madrid, said his goal this past season was simply to get back into the Tour after splitting with LIV Golf. Pen served a one-year suspension from the PGA Tour and was playing on the DP World Tour full-time while working to earn his Tour card back.
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He deserved it, and sending him a “speech to the clubs” was important.
“The most important thing for me at the beginning of the year when I decided not to re-sign with LIV was to try to make the trip to the PGA Tour,” he said. Associated Press. “The way to do what I felt was to try to make our way. I was able to start the season and to basically earn my way back to the PGA Tour means a lot to me.”
Reed was announced in January that from Liv. He didn’t think he was eligible for the “Return Member Program” that was created when Brooks Koepka wanted to jump back. Instead Reed came to the DP World Tour, where he is an honorary life member.
He won twice on the European tour this season, first at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January, then at the Qatar Masters in February. He is also currently the longest-running race, and enters the season nearly 300 points ahead of Rory McIlroy.
While McIlroy can take it there, the top 10 players from the DP World Tour who are not otherwise immune will earn a PGA Tour card in 2027.
“This year has been huge for me,” Reed said. “Not only for my life, but also for my family, because I had to go back to my spot, and to be able to go out there and earn back and play the way I had, it means a lot. And as I hope to play well in these two last events, and keep everyone hopeful and win the Race to Dubai they want a lot.”
Reed has won nine times on the PGA Tour in his career, most recently at the Farmers Insurance Open in 2021. He also won the Masters in 2018, his only major championship title. Arundo enters this week’s Madrid story under No. 29 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
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Reed says the only way to get on the PGA Tour is to earn it
LIV Golf has been working hard to find a way forward after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund opted to suspend its bankruptcy venture earlier this year. The new phase, which is called “LIV 2.0”, still has many questions that need to be answered before the story starts again.
LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. The blind future, and the possibility of European members being ineligible for next fall’s Ryder Cup team, has led to much speculation that the league’s top golfers will find an exit.
Jon Rahm, for example, revealed Wednesday that he would not participate in LIV Golf next season or beyond. That perhaps suggests his research to return to Toure and make a significant impact on LIV that is without the funding of Saudi Arabia. Rahm is playing in Madrid this week, but left before the birth of his fourth child.
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What Rahm and others in his position will do remains to be seen. But if it goes as far as the reed, he says, everyone follows his own path.
“I’m a firm believer that if you earn your right to play, you can play anywhere, but you deserve it,” he said. “You know how to go out there and work, go out there and not only work hard, but also play well.
“I’ve always wanted to earn my spot rather than have a given spot. Those guys in LIV, there’s a way to get here in DP [World Tour]whether it’s on the PGA Tour … I feel like that’s the one thing that you can get back out there and talk to the clubs.”