Winning any golf tournament against some of the finest players in the world isn't an easy task. Winning two in a row against a field of major winners is an impressive achievement by any measure. Talor Gooch has done exactly that on the LIV Golf tour, winning the breakaway series' past two events.
Gooch played in the Masters last month, and is eligible to play in the PGA Championship later this month. But thanks to three new words in the United States Golf Association's qualifying criteria for this year's U.S. Open, Gooch might not be playing in the season's third major.
Gooch's performance last season before he joined LIV was good enough to get him into the Masters and the PGA Championship this year, as well as the Open Championship. The Masters announced last fall that it would honor existing qualifying criteria for the 2023 Masters. Gooch is currently ranked 60th in the world, down from a high of 31st. He'll have the opportunity to earn more points at the PGA Championship, but after that isn't scheduled to play in any non-LIV events. The top 60 players in the world three weeks prior to the U.S. Open receive an automatic invitation to that year's tournament., Gooch did not submit an application to attempt to qualify through local tournaments by the Apr. 12 deadline.
LIV players who have won majors — for instance, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson at the Masters, Cam Smith at the Open Championship, or Brooks Koepka at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open — have long-term, sometimes even lifetime exemptions into those tournaments.
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