Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka speak on the twelfth gap throughout the first spherical of the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Nation Membership. (Picture: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports activities)
A complete of 12 LIV gamers are exempt into the 2024 majors as previous champions. However which of them?
Masters
Sergio Garcia, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel and Bubba Watson will likely be on the 2024 Masters as previous champions. Bryson DeChambeau (U.S. Open), Brooks Koepka (PGA Championship) and Cameron Smith (British Open) will likely be there as current main winners.
That’s 9 in comparison with the 18 who drove down Magnolia Lane this spring.
PGA Championship
Previous champions Martin Kaymer, Koepka and Mickelson will likely be joined by DeChambeau, Johnson and Smith at Valhalla subsequent summer time. That’s six gamers in subsequent 12 months’s area in comparison with 16 in final 12 months’s championship.
U.S. Open
DeChambeau, Kaymer, Koepka and Johnson are in for Pinehurst, with Mickelson and Smith in as effectively. Much like the PGA, that’s six gamers for 2024 after 15 teed it up on the USGA’s flagship occasion final 12 months.
Open Championship
The 2024 British Open will function previous champions Mickelson, Smith, Louis Oosthuizen and Henrik Stenson, with DeChambeau, Johnson and Koepka in tow through different main victories. Sixteen competed final 12 months at Royal Liverpool. Subsequent 12 months’s Open at Royal Troon will function simply seven.
