00:00Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood are beaming with pride over 1st Live Golfer to regain PGA Tour card.
00:07Lawrence Laurie Cantor has become the first former Live Golf player to regain PGA Tour status.
00:13After competing in 20 Live events and earning $5 million, he forfeited his PGA Tour status but has now earned it back at the Players' Championship.
00:22Cantor was a founding member of the Clique's GC team, which now includes Martin Kamer, Captain, Richard Bland, Adrian Maronk, and Frederick Kjetrup.
00:31After struggling in his first season and losing his team spot, he returned to compete on the European Tour before reclaiming his PGA Tour place.
00:39Cantor finished the season in the top 10 on the DP World Tour, placing 7th with 2,899.75 points just behind Bobby McIntyre.
00:48Rory McIlroy led the rankings with 5,975.06 points.
00:54By finishing in the top 10 of the DP World Tour, Laurie Cantor regained his PGA Tour card and received ceremonial Tiffany Cup links from Commissioner Jay Monaghan,
01:04becoming the first former Live Golfer to return to the PGA Tour.
01:08Former PGA Tour players Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson shared their reactions on X.
01:13It is legitimately dizzying how active Phil Mickelson has been on X lately.
01:17I can't keep track of all his posts even if I wanted to.
01:21But he was gracious here in congratulating Laurie Cantor for the hard work he put in to regain his PGA Tour status.
01:27While Phil Mickelson congratulated Cantor and moved on, Lee Westwood couldn't help but take a swipe at the PGA Tour's decision to ban golfers
01:35who have never been PGA Tour members if they have Live Golf affiliations.
01:39While relevant to the topic at hand, it is hard to take Lee Westwood's congratulations seriously when he used it to grind his axe.
01:47At 36 years old, Cantor is in the prime of his career.
01:51He won the BAPCO Energies Bahrain Championship in February of this year in a playoff and the European Open in June of last year.
01:57The PGA Tour has a proper stick, teeing it up every week, and it will be fun to see him compete each week.
02:02What remains to be seen now is if this path through the DP World Tour and regaining PGA Tour membership by finishing in the top 10
02:11is the only path Live Golf Tour members have back to the PGA Tour, if they so choose.
02:18PGA Tour members have back to the PGA Tour, if they so choose.
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