LIV Golf star who’s made over $20million from breakaway reveals PGA Tour hope
Abraham Ancer may have earned millions of dollars through LIV Golf but he still possesses a burning desire to compete once again in the PGA Tour‘s major championships.
The Mexican-American golfer jumped ship back in 2022 to join LIV after several years playing on the PGA Tour, where he had one win at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational to his name, a year before his departure.
A member of the Fireballs GC team, captained by former Masters champion Sergio Garcia, the 33-year-old has profited greatly from his decision to defect.
Ancer has earned $20.1million (£16.4m) since signing in 2022, with $4m (£3.2m) of his earnings to date coming as prize money from his sole LIV tournament win in Hong Kong last year.
Despite becoming millions of dollars richer in less than three years on the tour, Ancer admitted that he retains hope that he, alongside his fellow LIV golfers, can participate in the majors.
LIV players must meet a qualification criteria in order to compete in PGA Tour events, with the proposed merger between the two organisations yet to be confirmed despite the announcement of a framework agreement in June 2023.
Speaking to Golf Monthly, Ancer revealed: “We will find out if anything changes (regarding Major exemptions). Do we want to play the majors? Of course we do. So, hopefully something happens and there’s a bit of a path. I feel like there’s a bunch of (LIV) players who have a chance to win a major, but we’ll see what happens.
Abraham Ancer plays on the Fireballs GC team where Sergio Garcia is captain (
“We definitely saw it this past year and you see the hunger in us wanting to play in Majors”, said Ancer, who had to go through a playoff to qualify for The Open Championship last year.
Ancer said the possibility of not being able to compete for majors was something he considered when signing for LIV but admitted he had hoped there’d be a pathway for LIV athletes to participate by now.
He continued: “It’s something that I don’t really try and think about. I’m happy with my decision (to join LIV) and I knew that may have been a possibility, (of not playing Majors) even though I thought there may have been some type of path created some time ago, but it is what it is. So we’ll see what we’ve got and we’ll keep going.”
