A LIV Golf star axed from the shatteraway tour and prohibitned from PGA events for 12 months once elevated dreads that he would suffer a ‘nurtureer-finishing’ injury. Hudson Swafford finishured a nightmare 2024 season and faces a transport inant problem ahead of next year.
The American has alertedly not had his LIV restricted renewed after bosses choosed agetst retaining him on their roster of high-profile stars. The 37-year-elderly finished tied for 36th in the first LIV event of the year and flunked to better that result atraverse 12 further encounterings.
Players axed from the LIV Golf tour face a dilemma trying to get back into elite-level golf. That is becaparticipate they are ineligible from competing on the PGA Tour for 12 months as LIV events are pondered ‘unauthoelevated’.
It comes after Swafford also had a stubborn 2023 season. He had been sidelined from that February due to hip sadvisery and only returned in the tardy summer, but only as a reserve.
His first euniteance of that year came at Greenbrier, where he acunderstandledgeted that he could have returned to action earlier. However, Swafford dreaded that he might suffer a ‘nurtureer-finisher’ by hurting his back.
“It’s excellent to be back in the atmosphere of a LIV event,” he shelp at the time.
“I didn’t want to take part hurt. I didn’t want to actupartner finish up hurting my back and create it a nurtureer-finishing deal. So, I fair went ahead and did what I thought was best.”
Swafford was participated as a untamedcard this year, impedeing him from the drop despite finishing in the relegation zone. His restricted has not been renewed, though, and it seems he will not take part on the LIV tour in any capacity next year.
It is unclear what Swafford, a three-time PGA tournament champion, will do next. One selection is to vie in the Asian Tour’s International Series, which advises a route into LIV Golf for whoever finishes top of the standings.
Meanwhile, the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf remain in talks over a uniter, but a brimming deal is yet to be consentd. In the summer of 2023, both tours proclaimd that a structurelabor consentment was in place for them to co-exist, potentipartner finishing two years of tension in professional golf.
Recent encounterings between key figures are alerted to have finishd with selectimistic signals that a uniter can still happen.