LIV Golf rebel takes up invite to compete in Nedbank Golf Challenge
LIV Golf star Branden Grace will compete in this week's Nedbank Golf Challenge on the DP World Tour.
LIV Golf star Branden Grace has accepted an invite to compete in this week's Nedbank Golf Challenge on home soil at famed Gary Player Country Club.
Grace, 35, won this tournament back in 2017 and he finished inside the top 10 of last year's event albeit shooting a 75 in the final round.
The South African received an invite into this week's penultimate event of the DP World Tour season in Sun City by tournament host Gary Player.
Grace is the only LIV Golf player competing in this week's DP World Tour event.
Fellow LIV Golf South Africans and former major champions Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen are understood to have declined invites.
Tommy Fleetwood is the defending champion, and PGA Tour stars Max Homa and Justin Thomas are also in the field.
Oosthuizen last month took up an invite to compete in the DP World Tour's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews.
LIV Golf Individual champion Talor Gooch, Peter Uihlein and Hudson Swafford also took up invites to compete that week.
Oosthuizen and Uihlein were allowed to participate in Scotland as a result of already having handed in their memberships of the DP World Tour prior to joining LIV Golf, while Gooch and Swafford had never even been members of the circuit.
Grace has won nine times on the DP World Tour and twice on the PGA Tour.
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He has one victory to his name since having joined LIV Golf in 2022.
Grace nearly notched his second title on LIV earlier this season but he was denied in a three-man playoff at LIV Golf Portland.
A number of other LIV Golf stars are competing in the Asian Tour's Hong Kong Open this week.
Gooch, Cameron Smith and Patrick Reed are just three of the headline names.
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The PGA Tour heads to Bermuda, but it's one of their weakest fields of the season.
They are still playing for a fortune though!
Lucas Glover, who is one of the tournament favourites, has just hit out at the PGA Tour.
