2027: The Year LIV Players Return to the PGA Tour?

Hudson Swafford joins the Subpar Podcast to share the full story of his move to LIV Golf, why he left, and what comes next. He opens up about the reinstatement process with the PGA Tour — a path he believes will have him back competing in 2027, one year after many of LIV’s biggest stars are rumored to see their contracts expire.

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I believe you’ve had some conversations with people uh within the PGA tour about potential return. What What have you been told about that? What does that process look like? Like where do you stand on that right now? Yeah. Is it I’ve had some good back and forth with the PGA Tour, but then some wishy-washy. It’s it’s still not set in stone. I know they’ve set up suspended um until 27 um which I know they’re basing that on a couple people’s contracts being up after the 26 season. So then they can kind of change rules in favor of everybody coming back. I know some guys that didn’t have any status and you know it’s a hard one year um you know no PGA Tour sanctioned events uh but then you can come back and play. So, but then I but my problem is is I come in and talk to them. It’s like, okay, I can come back and play in 27, but what does 27 on the PGA Tour really look like? Is it no more opposite field events? Is it, you know, they’re already reducing fields? So, I would I would go ahead and bet and say that the past champions category is pretty much done going forward after this year. I mean, we can agree or disagree, but it just seems like that and they’ve kind of told me that. Um, so there I mean I guess you can sign up for Monday qualifiers but so really I would be basically suspended until Q school of 27 um if you will and that’s and I was just like this is just I don’t know how you can come up with a five or five and a half year suspension um based on some I guess I played five events that um that their thinking was I played five events while the PGA Tour season was going on in 22 that I didn’t wasn’t able to get media releases for. So, they giving me a year for each of those and it equal 27. That’s interesting. I I like that you brought up that 27 with people’s contracts um expiring at the end of 26. Do you think that’s really the reason they have set 27 is because, you know, I I’m guessing it’s the likes of Bryson Dashambo, uh Brooks Kepka that their contracts are up at the end of 26. Yeah. Um, you know, I it be pure speculating, but I mean there’s a good hunch on that. I mean, um, but I don’t know for sure. They they’ve not told me that. They just said I was suspended till, you know, January of 27. Um, so because well, you look at a guy like James Patt who played over there on Live and he just he just got a sponsor exemption into the Rocket in Detroit and so I’m like, okay, so he gets to play. He played on live. I know he’s not a member of was never a member of the PGA tour, but he still went to live and then all of a sudden boom, he’s playing in the PJ tour because in my opinion, this is the one thing like I’ve been very outspoken against Liv for the most part. Like I think the only thing it’s really done for the game of golf is brought more money to the players, which is great. But if a tournament wants to give Hudson Swaffford or Dustin Johnson a sponsor exemption and there’s not a live tournament opposite, I don’t have a problem with that. Correct. Like that’s that I mean I think the sponsors should be able to do whatever they want, right? How much money are they paying now? They’re paying a ton. So, I think they should be able to do what they want. And um one thing I do disagree with on Scotty Sheffller and I’ve seen in a couple press conferences is that he said that, you know, the media should just go over to the LIB tour wherever they’re playing and ask the tours, you know, ask those players why the tour is divided. And I’ll be honest with you, the whole consensus of the LIB players, they would play the PGA tour events. They would play PGA tour events. Now whether they get in 15 events, I don’t know, but they would love to go play a number of events on the tour and still that they, you know, love to play. I would I would love to go play MX. I would love, you know, a place that I’ve won at twice. There was a number of events that I would have still tried to play if, you know, if I was allowed. So they kind of created this narrative that the live guys don’t care about the PJ tour, don’t want to be a part of it when in all reality like a m everybody would go back and play a number of events on tour but that’s just not allowed.