Field set for LIV Golf Promotions event, 3 spots in league up for grabs

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LIV Golf doesn't officially kick off its 2026 season for another month, but the league will finalize its full roster this weekend. The first LIV Golf Promotions event of the year begins Thursday at Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, Florida, ranked No. 125 among Golfweek's Top 200 Residential Courses in the U.S.

The event is a 72-hole stroke play eliminator tournament of sorts. The top-20 finishers from the first day move on to Friday's second round, at which point the scores will reset and players who automatically qualified for the second day will be added to the field. The top 20 after Friday then advance to a 36-hole shootout over the weekend. After play concludes Sunday, Jan. 11, the top three on the leaderboard will be awarded the final wild card spots on the 2026 LIV Golf roster, which will have 57 players this year instead of 54.

There are some familiar faces among the 87 golfers set to tee it up at Black Diamond Ranch, like three-time PGA Tour winner Anthony Kim and 2016 European Ryder Cup member Chris Wood. Check out a full breakdown of the field.

Chris Wood of England tees off on the eighth hole on day one of the Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand 2025 at Golfclub Gut Altentann on May 29, 2025 in Henndorf am Wallersee, Austria.

Players exempt into first round of LIV Golf Promotions

These are the seven players who finished inside the top 40 in the 2025 International Series and were not already members of LIV Golf or exempt into LIV Golf Promotions:

Pavit Tangkamolprasert, Thailand
Sarit Suwannarut, Thailand
Travis Smyth, Australia
Poom Saksansin, Thailand
Austen Truslow, USA
MJ Maguire, USA
Denzel Ieremia, New Zealand

Every player who won an event on the Asian Tour, Japan Tour, Korean Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia or the Sunshine Tour in 2025 also qualified for the first round of LIV Golf Promotions:

Luis Carrera, Mexico
Cory Crawford, Australia
Matias Sanchez, Australia
Sadom Kaewkanjana, Thailand
Oliver Bekker, South Africa
Nick Voke, New Zealand
Josh Geary, New Zealand
Hongtaek Kim, South Korea
Tomoyo Ikemura, Japan
Dominic Foos, Germany
Harrison Crowe, Australia
Sung Kug Park, South Korea
Jae Ho Kim, South Korea
Suteepat Prateeptienchai, Thailand
Jeon Garam, South Korea
Louis Albertse, South Africa
Cameron John, Australia
Ryo Katsumata, Japan
Samuel Simpson, South Africa

Three players qualified by being members of the 2025 Walker Cup or Palmer Cup teams:

Dominic Clemons, England
Charlie Forster, England
Pablo Ereno, Spain

These players earned invites to LIV Golf Promotions from the league itself:

Chris Wood, England
Alex Levy, France
Matthias Schwab, Austria
Tom Lewis, England
Lucas Bjerregaard, Denmark
Callum Shinkwin, England
Max Kieffer, Germany
Andreas Halvorsen, Norway
Julian Perico, Peru
Max Kennedy, Ireland
Scotty Kennon, USA
Collin Adams, USA
Yeong-Su Kim, South Korea
Martin Vorster, South Africa
Albert Eckhardt, Finland
Jose Islas, Mexico
James Ashfield, Wales
MJ Daffue, South Africa
Marcus Plunkett, USA
Pierre Pineau, France
Chase Koepka, USA
Will Florimo, Australia
Grant Hirschman, USA
Anthony Quayle, Australia
Jonathan Brightwell, USA
Nick Bachem, Germany
Jack Buchanan, Australia
Joe Pagdin, England
Jason Scrivener, Australia
Wei-Hsuan Wang, Chinese-Taipei
Joel Moscatel, Spain
Andrew Kozan, USA
Brett Drewitt, Australia
Clement Sordet, France

Players exempt into second round of LIV Golf Promotions

These are the 10 players who finished in the top 20 in the international Series not already members of LIV Golf:

Miguel Tabuena, Philippines
Ollie Schniederjans, USA
Wade Ormsby, Australia
Danthai Boonma, Thailand
Jeunghun Wang, South Korea
Jazz Janewattananond, Thailand
Soomin Lee, South Korea
Kieran Vincent, Zimbabwe
Rattanon Wannasrichan, Thailand

These were the leading players from the Asian Tour, Japan Tour, Korean Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia and Sunshine Tour at the close of entries into LIV Golf Promotions: