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LIV Golf reveals official field for 2026 Promotions Event in Florida

12/23/2025 by Laura Gailus

The official field for the 2026 LIV Golf Promotions Event in Florida is set, with two league spots up for grabs.

LIV Golf reveals official field for 2026 Promotions Event in Florida

The field for the 2026 LIV Golf Promotions Event is set, featuring several big names (Photo: Getty)

The official field for the 2026 LIV Golf Promotions Event in Florida is set, with two league spots up for grabs.

The 87-player field for the 2026 LIV Golf Promotions Event has been announced. The tournament will take place from January 8 to 11 at Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, Florida. Last year’s event in Saudi Arabia offered just one league spot, which was claimed by Chieh-po Lee. This year, the stakes have been raised as LIV Golf enhances its promotion-relegation system in an effort to gain Official World Golf Ranking points.

Big names headline LIV Golf Promotions field

German-speaking players Maximilian Kieffer and Matthias Schwab will compete for one of the coveted league spots. Also in the field are the top ten players from the International Series, including Miguel Tabuena (Philippines winner), Ollie Schniederjans (India winner), and Wade Ormsby (Jakarta winner), all of whom are pre-qualified for the second round. Former LIV players Ben Campbell, Matt Jones, Andy Ogletree, Anthony Kim, Max Rottluff, and John Catlin are also returning.

Notable European names include former Ryder Cup player and BMW PGA champion Chris Wood, five-time DP World Tour winner Alex Levy, and former Open Championship silver medalist Tom Lewis. Former DPWT regulars Callum Shinkwin and Lucas Bjerregaard, along with Walker Cup players Dominic Clemons and Charlie Forster, round out a strong international lineup.

According to LIV Golf, 50 of the 87 players have won a tournament in the past two years, including 39 different winners of OWGR-sanctioned events in 2025. “The evolution of LIV Golf Promotions reflects our ongoing commitment to creating truly open and competitive pathways for players around the world to compete at the highest level,” said LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil. “It will be a high-stakes, intense competition from start to finish, and we look forward to celebrating the players who earn their shot at LIV Golf’s biggest season yet.”

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PGA Tour players banned from participating

Once again, no PGA Tour players will participate, as the Tour classifies the four-day event as an unauthorized competition. Any member who competes would face a one-year suspension. Tensions between the two professional golf organizations remain high, recently reignited when Laurie Canter relinquished his PGA Tour card to return to the Saudi-backed league.