6 big-name golfers missing from The American Express 2024 field ft. Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm
The American Express is the first event of the 2024 season in the continental United States. Although the event will showcase a star-studded field, several of the world’s top players, such as Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm, will be absent from La Quinta, California.
The reasons for the players missing out on The American Express are varied. While some have other commitments, most of them will use this week to rest after the Hawaii Open.
The American Express is the first event of the 2024 season in the continental United States although the event will showcase a star studded field several of the world’s top players such as Rory mroy and John Ram will be absent from La Quinta California the reasons for the players missing out on the American
Express are varied while some have other commitments most of them will use this week to rest after the Hawaii open six bigname golfers missing from the American Express 2024 field three members of the official World Golf Ranking auger top five and six from the top 10 will not be seen at the American
Express they are as follows one Rory maoy Rory mroy will not be at LaQuinta because it coincides with the hero Dubai Desert Classic where the northern Irishman is the defending Champion the hero Dubai Desert Classic is also the first event of the DP world tours golden Series in
2024 where mroy would hope to accumulate as many points as possible for the race to Dubai notably the current world number two topped the European points list in 2023 to John Ram the Spaniard is the defending champion of the American Express however he will not be a part of
The 2024 Edition John Ram announced his absence even before signing with Liv G however that is now inconsequential as the world number three is banned from participating in all PGA Tour sanctioned events Ram will only be allowed to participate in the four majors three Victor havland the Norwegian started his
Season two weeks ago at the Sentry did not play in the Sony Open and nor will he be participating in the American Express everything seems to indicate that Victor havland will structure his schedule around Signature Events and Majors the next signature event will be the AT&T Pebble Beach proam which will
Be played in two weeks at Pebble Beach he might be seen a week before at the Farmers Insurance open for Max Homa Max Homa is the defending champion of the Farmers Insurance open which is set to be played next week at Tory Pines this explains why he has chosen the Farmers
Insurance open to make his next opening after the Sentry five Matt Fitzpatrick Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick who played his first two tournaments of the season in Hawaii will miss the American Express and is likely to miss the Farmer Insurance open to get rest he will play
Again in the AT and T Pebble Beach proam six Brian Harmon the 2023 champion of the Open Championship is in a similar situation to Fitzpatrick Brian Harmon played the senty and the Sony Open with excellent results t 5 and t18 respectively so most likely his particular schedule reflects rest for this week
