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The contingent will be lead by defending
champion Brooks Koepka, a three-time winner of the event who is
coming off a victory in LIV's Singapore event last week. The
eight other LIV players who qualified for the event are Bryson
DeChambeau, Tyrrell Hatton, Dustin Johnson, Martin Kaymer, Phil
Mickelson, Andy Ogletree, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith.
Talor Gooch revealed Monday that he had received an invitation.
He will be joined by six other LIV players to receive special
invites: Former Masters champion Patrick Reed along with Joaquin
Niemann, Dean Burmester, Adrian Meronk, Lucas Herbert and David
Puig.
Reed, who has played in every major since the 2014 Masters,
moved back inside the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking
at No. 92 with his tie for 12th at Augusta National last month.
Niemann won the Australian Open in December and sits atop LIV's
individual points standings on the strength of two event wins.
Notable names who did not receive invitations include another
former Masters champion in Sergio Garcia along with Abraham
Ancer and Carlos Ortiz. Garcia has fallen to 714th in the
rankings with a lone top-10 in an OWGR event -- a T5 at last
year's International Series Oman -- since signing with LIV and
giving up his DP World Tour membership.
Ancer won the PIF Saudi International last year and tied for
fourth at the International Series England, but has played in
only one OWGR-sactioned event this year, tying for 38th in Oman.
He is currently 254th in the world, while Ortiz has slipped to
219th despite following up his win in Oman with a T10 at the
International Series Macau.
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