But he’s still upset about the USGA changing its criteria for this year’s US Open. Gooch and several other LIV players including Phil Mickelson were involved in a lawsuit against the tour, but he dropped out of that in November. With Gooch leaving for LIV last June, the PGA Tour banned him from playing at East Lake in August. The “and were eligible” is obviously the key. Whereas it used to say “Those players qualifying for the season-ending Tour Championship” were in, it now read, “Those players who qualified and were eligible for the season-ending 2022 Tour Championship.” But when the USGA came out with its qualifying criteria for this year’s event, a list that was published in February, there was a slight change to its language from previous years.
“So when Augusta came out and made that decision, I was very optimistic that everybody else would follow suit.”Īugusta made its decision on the 2023 qualifying criteria for the Masters in December. “I was glad that Augusta recognised that because, historically, up until this last year, if you make the Tour Championship, it gets you into the Masters, the US Open and the British Open,” Gooch said. And that indeed got him his invite to Augusta National in April, where he finished T-34. Open and Open Championship last August by qualifying for the 2022 Tour Championship on the PGA Tour at the time the most recent qualifying criteria for those three majors gave invites/exemptions to all who qualified for East Lake. Gooch appeared to lock up a spot in this year’s Masters, U.S. Actually, the 29-year-old is well aware of how he’s being kept out, he’s more upset about why.
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