World No. 39 calls in sick to PGA Tour. Is LIV Golf his next stop?

Adrian Meronc reported feeling sick. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, she posted the news on her Instagram Story with what appears to be a photo of data from the Whoop fitness tracker. His absence has also been confirmed at work since then.

“Adrian Meronk leads first round at WD Farmers Insurance Open,” wrote PGA Tour Communications. “Now we have Eric Barnes.”

Then came the speculation.

As first reported by Tom Kershaw of the Times and later by Bob Harig of Sports Illustrated, Meronk is set to join LIV ahead of the Saudi Arabia-backed league’s season opener next week, a move in which he has never played before PGA. This means that you may be disqualified from playing in the tournament. . As an official member of the tournament. The 30-year-old, who grew up in Poland, earned his Tour card last year by finishing in the top 10 in the points race for the DP World Tour season.

Here Meronc won three titles last season. Despite being left out of the European Ryder Cup team, he was voted DP World Tour Player of the Year by his peers. Last week, he finished second at the DP World Tour Dubai Desert Classic, and on Monday he was ranked 39th in the World Golf Rankings, a personal best.

Meronk withdrew from the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open before the start of the first round on Wednesday after leaving Dubai and checking into a hotel, according to Golf Digest’s Evin Priest. Kershaw said Meronk’s agent would not comment, and Meronk posted a photo of Whoop on his Instagram story with the caption, “Unfortunately, I have to withdraw from @farmersinsopen due to illness.”

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However, it was announced on Wednesday that Kershaw and Harig Meronk will join LIV as part of the Clix team led by Martin Kaymer. It’s worth noting that there are still plenty of openings at LIV, including a potential team led by John Rahm, who shocked the golf world by leaving the PGA Tour early last month. According to Kershaw and Harig, LIV could offer a move to the player who committed last week to stay on the PGA Tour.

Tyrell Hutton, ranked 16th in the world. Hutton was part of last year’s European Ryder Cup winning team, where he was a memorable double with Rahm, and his name has been linked with a move to Spanish team LIV. But last week Hutton spoke to Scotsman Martin Dempster.

“I would say there are a few people I’ve talked to,” Hutton said of the LIV interview. “I think it’s part of golf these days and I love the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour.”

Did he have a story like this?

“I was just saying,” Hatton told Dempster. “There are a lot of people who have done it and I don’t think there’s anything to be ashamed of.”

But will it stay the same?

“That’s the way it is from now on,” Hutton told Dempster. Hutton also competed in Dubai last week and placed 31st, but did not compete in the Farmers Insurance Open. PGA Tour Waste Management Open officials said Wednesday that Hatton had attended the event, which is scheduled to take place in two weeks. Of course, all of that will be lost if the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (LIV Golf’s financier) continue to negotiate a financing deal. Now, Meronk and Hatton’s report raises several questions, mainly: