Let LIV Golf stars play the majors: Davis

Australian PGA Tour member Cam Davis believes all LIV Golf players should be allowed to contest the majors if they'd ordinarily qualify.

CAMERON DAVIS.
CAMERON DAVIS. Picture: Michael Reaves/Getty Images

Cam Davis has lofty ambitions, wants to win majors and wants to beat golf's finest to do so - including those on the LIV Golf breakaway circuit.

The sport's four majors all have different entry criteria, and being in the world's top 50 is one of main ways to qualify for the Masters, the first major of 2023.

With officials so far refusing to award rankings points to LIV Series events, that could rule some notables out of a trip to Augusta National in April.

Many others, including Australia's world No.2 Cameron Smith, still qualify on exemptions earned with past major wins, unless rules were to change.

Rising PGA Tour star Davis would like to see all LIV players who would ordinarily qualify, be allowed to compete at all four majors.

"You obviously want to say you beat the best, so I'm happy for people who should be in a major to be playing in a major," Davis told AAP on Wednesday.

"To be honest, obviously a major is a major. The history behind the trophy is what you are playing for.

"I have got no issues with those guys that deserve to be there coming back and playing those ones. They should be for everyone."

The in-form Davis broke through for his maiden PGA Tour win last year and is eager to take the next step at golf's biggest events.

"I feel like my game's getting to a place where (when) every part of my game is working well it is going to be good enough to be contending in tournaments like majors," the 27-year-old said on the eve of the PGA Tour's Zozo Championship in Japan.

"A big goal is to make another step forward in terms like in FedEx Cup and getting to a Tour Championship."

Smith is among a dozen major winners now in LIV Golf, with the departures of multiple majors champions Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson also diluting the PGA Tour ranks.

Davis, though, doesn't feel their absence has made it any easier to win on the PGA Tour.

"I feel like the PGA Tour is always going to be a very difficult place to win regardless of if a couple of guys end up disappearing.

"Obviously a couple of the guys who are the most in form aren't there anymore and immediately following that there's a couple of less players to look out for on the leaderboard but those positions are getting filled all the time.

"One person leaves and someone else will...rise to that level as well."

Davis said the emergence of Tom Kim, the first player since Tiger Woods to win twice on the PGA Tour before their 21st birthday, was evidence.