2026 LIV Golf League

The 2026 LIV Golf League is the fifth season of LIV Golf. The season will consist of 72-hole tournaments, featuring 57 players and no cut, with a team championship event at the season end.

Format changes

Tournaments in the 2026 season will be contested over 72 holes, extended from 54 holes previously.

Player movements

From the end of the 2025 season until the beginning of the 2026 season there were numerous changes to team rosters.

Departures

The following players (full-time only) are no longer with LIV Golf after the conclusion of the 2025 season:

• Brooks Koepka came to an 'amicable and mutually agreed' early release from his contract, which had one year remaining. Talor Gooch was appointed as the new captain of Smash GC. Koepka subsequently rejoined the PGA Tour.
• Matt Jones became a free agent after Ripper GC elected not to re-sign him. With no other team looking to sign him, he entered the LIV Promotions Event to try and regain a place in the league. He failed to earn one of the three places available but finished in the top-ten to earn a place on the International Series for 2026.
• Jinichiro Kozuma and Kevin Na were not retained by Iron Heads GC (which was rebranded to Korean Golf Club, with an all-Korean lineup), and were not picked up by another team.
• Patrick Reed left after he was unable to agree terms on a contract extension. He has Honorary Life Membership of the European Tour, and is eligible to play on the PGA Tour again after August 25, 2026.

Relegated players

Players (full-time only) who finished in places 49th and below were relegated from the LIV Golf League and could not be signed by another team unless they earned their way back into the 2026 season through the LIV Golf Promotions event.

The following table lists players who were relegated following the 2025 season.

Free agents

Players who declined their contract extensions, along with those who finished in places 25–44 of the individual standings, also called the Open Zone, whose contracts expired after the season became free agents and could negotiate with any team. Free agents were not guaranteed to be signed and may have lost their playing privileges in 2026 if they were not signed. The free agency period began on 30 October 2025.

Promoted players

League spots were awarded to the top two finishers in the 2025 International Series rankings, and the top three finishers at the LIV Golf Promotions, held in Florida in January 2026 with a purse of $1.5m.

Newly signed players

In addition to qualifying for the 2026 season through the International Series or via the LIV Golf Promotions event, players who have not played for LIV Golf (full-time) can join the 2026 season by signing with the league or with a team.

Transfers

Rosters

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2026 season.

Notes

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