Danny Lee (33), a Korean player from New Zealand, is expected to transfer to LIV Golf, which is sponsored by Saudi Arabian capital.
ESPN, an American sports media,슬롯사이트 reported on the 19th that “Danny Lee, Thomas Peters (Belgium), and Brendan Steele (USA) will join LIV Golf.”
LIV Golf, which will open the 2023 season in Mexico on the 24th, will announce the list of additional players on the 20th.
ESPN first reported on the transfer of Danny Lee, Peters and Steel to LIV ahead of the official announcement of LIV Golf, citing sources.
Danny Lee, a Korean New Zealander whose Korean name is Lee Jin-myeong, was born in 1990 and has won the US Professional Golf (PGA) Tour once in 2015.
In 2009, during his amateur days, he reached the top of the European Tour Johnnie Walker Classic, and also topped the amateur world rankings.
When Danny Lee joins LIV Golf, he becomes the third Korean player to play for LIV Golf. Currently, Kevin Na (40) and Kim Si-hwan (35, USA) are active in LIV Golf.
Danny Lee also participated in the PGA Tour Genesis Invitational, which is currently being held in Pacific Palisades, California, USA, but missed the cut with a 3-over-par until the second round.
He earned 15,363,106 dollars (approximately 19.97 billion won) in career prize money on the PGA Tour.
Heading to LIV Golf this time with Danny Lee, Peters is a member of the DP World Tour and is currently ranked 34th in the world.
On the European tour, he won a total of six victories, including the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi last year. He also competed in men’s golf at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and was named tied for 16th.
Steele has won three times on the PGA Tour and was tied for 27th at the US Open last season and tied for 28th at the Open. Steele abruptly withdrew without giving any reason ahead of the Genesis Invitational, which is being held this week.