Will Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay join LIV Golf next year?

The Saudi Arabia-funded breakaway league is apparently hoping to add seven to ten PGA Tour players by the end of the year, and they reportedly already have PGA Tour professionals

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Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele in mind.Losing Cantlay and Schauffele to LIV would be a serious setback for the PGA because they are ranked No. 4 and No. 6 in the

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Official World Golf Ranking, respectively. Will they go, though?Cantlay has formerly been associated with Greg Norman's golf tour. The native of Long Beach has been in LIV Golf

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rumors a few times already, even being referenced in the same sentence as Cam Smith when the Australian was obviously considering leaving the PGA Tour. It would be interesting to

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see if Cantlay has changed his attitude on joining LIV Golf, since he has consistently stated that he has "no plans" to do so.Schauffele is a another matter. He was particularly

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vocal about wanting the contents of the meeting, which Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy convened for the key PGA players last season, to remain confidential. It would be a tremendous

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slap in the face for Schauffele to leave his current team and sign with LIV Golf.Naturally, it should be remembered that LIV Golf is a big-talking organization with many obstacles

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to overcome. Despite undoubtedly attracting some of the most well-known athletes, LIV is still without a significant television agreement and is still a long way from having its

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golfers taken into account by the world ranking system. Other players may decide against joining LIV Golf even though they had signed with the hope of receiving a world ranking,

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given that the circuit hasn't resolved that issue.Therefore, for the time being, the reports that Cantlay and Schauffele will join LIV Golf are just that: rumors.

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