TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State senior golfer David Puig introduced his determination to skip his senior season and switch professional by an Instagram submit Monday.
He did not embody which skilled tour he could be becoming a member of or when he would start his professional profession within the submit, however he is listed on the LIV Golf’s web site as a member of its roster and, in accordance with Puig’s LIV Golf bio, he’ll make his professional debut on the LIV Golf Invitational Chicago, which might be performed at Wealthy Harvest Farms on Sept. 16-18.
Puig is now the second faculty golfer to forego their eligibility to affix LIV Golf. Eugenio Chacarra left Oklahoma State earlier than his senior 12 months to affix the upstart tour.
Now it is Puig, who, like Chacarra, appeared over time that he would enter the skilled ranks after the 2023 NCAA Championships. In a coincidence, Puig will start his professional profession 62 miles from the place his faculty teammates will play this weekend at Olympia Fields within the Combating Illini Invitational.
Puig is at present ranked ninth within the World Newbie Golf Rankings and one hundredth in Golfweek’s collegiate particular person rankings. He is a two-time All-American and completed T-Eleventh in final 12 months’s NCAA particular person championships.
Puig waited to declare as knowledgeable till he competed within the U.S. Newbie in August and the World Newbie Crew Championships earlier this month. However a leap to LIV Golf was a subject he could not keep away from after enjoying in two LIV tournaments as an novice over the summer time.
He completed fortieth in London and forty second in New Jersey to earn $267,000 in prize cash however he did not settle for it to retain his novice standing, which he vacated Monday.
