OGLETREE, CANTER TO REPLACE LAHIRI, KAYMER IN LIV GOLF ORLANDO FIELD

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – Reserve players Andy Ogletree and Laurie Canter will be in the 48-player field for this week’s LIV Golf Orlando. The first round begins Friday at 1:15 p.m. ET at Orange County National.

Ogletree wil play for Crushers GC as a replacement for Anirban Lahiri, who withdrew for personal reasons. Ogletree currently leads the International Series Order of Merit on the Asian Tour. The Order of Merit leader at the end of the 10-event International Series will earn playing privileges for the 2024 LIV Golf League season.

The American-born Ogletree, who won the U.S. Amateur in 2019, played in the inaugural 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series event in London. He has won two of the last five International Series tournaments dating back to last season.

Ogletree is joining a Crushers GC team that opened 2023 by winning in Mayakoba. Captain Bryson DeChambeau’s squad, which also includes Paul Casey and Mayakoba individual winner Charles Howell III, currently sits in third place in the points standings.

Canter is making his third LIV Golf start in 2023 as he continues to replace Cleeks GC Captain Martin Kaymer, who is recovering from offseason wrist surgery. The English-born Canter finished 30th in the individual standings at LIV Golf League’s most recent tournament in Tucson. He played every LIV Golf Invitational Series event last year and was a member of the Cleeks lineup for the majority of the 2022 season.

Cleeks GC – which includes regulars Graeme McDowell, Richard Bland and Bernd Wiesberger – is one of three teams yet to record points this season.