Earlier than the 2026 season, LIV Golf has been below scrutiny with adjustments to its roster. Whereas the league is reportedly on its strategy to welcome Thomas Detry and Elvis Smylie, it has confronted a big setback from PGA Tour skilled Akshay Bhatia.
In keeping with reviews, the Saudi PIF-backed golf league lately gave a ‘profitable’ supply to two-time PGA Tour winner, Bhatia. Nonetheless, the golfer has chosen to be on the aspect of the PGA Tour, reportedly rejecting LIV Golf’s proposal.
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After Rex Hoggard, co-host of the Golf Channel podcast, revealed the report on Bhatia, NUCLR GOLF reshared it on X and wrote:
“❌💰JUST IN — Akshay Bhatia has rejected a “profitable” supply to affix the LIV Golf league, with the 2-time winner opting to stay on the PGA Tour, a number of sources inform Golf Channel. (By way of @RexHoggardGC)”
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If reviews on Akshay Bhatia are true, LIV Golf did miss a golden likelihood of welcoming a gifted skilled on its aspect. Bhatia has performed the Tour Championship for the previous two seasons. In 2025, regardless of choosing up no wins, the American professional golfer completed thirteenth on the FedEx Cup Standings.
Apart from Akshay Bhatia, one other PGA Tour professional has reportedly rejected LIV’s supply.
Akshay Bhatia isn’t the one PGA Tour professional who reportedly turned down LIV Golf’s supply
Weeks earlier than reviews of Akshay Bhatia’s refusal, LIV Golf allegedly despatched a proposal to PGA Tour professional, Si Woo Kim. There have been additionally reviews that Kim would take Kevin Na’s place within the rebranded version of the Ironheads GC.
Nonetheless, after days of hypothesis, a Korean Information outlet reported that the four-time PGA Tour winner had rejected LIV’s supply. The outlet additionally shared a press release from a member of Kim’s group, who claimed that the golfer selected to stick with the Tour.
“It’s true that Kim Si-woo, like many Korean gamers, has been provided a recruitment. Nonetheless, Kim Si-woo lastly expressed his intention to refuse and determined to stay on the PGA Tour…”
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It’s price mentioning that aside from Kim and Bhatia, reviews have prompt that LIV has additionally reached out to two-time PGA Tour winner Sungjae Im. Nonetheless, Im later turned down these reviews in an Instagram story, the place the South Korean professional claimed that it was not actual information.
Edited by Hitesh Nigam