Three join the rebels

THREE more players have climbed aboard the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf bandwagon ahead of its second event in America this week.

American Matthew Wolff, Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz, and top amateur Eugenio Chacarra will make their LIV debuts at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Oregon on Thursday.

Wolff and Ortiz are ranked outside the world’s top 75 but both have won on the PGA Tour.

Wolff, 23, won the 3M Open in July 2019 less than one month after turning professional, while Ortiz triumphed at the 2020 Houston Open.

“LIV Golf is providing opportunities for the best players in the world to compete and our field in Portland reflects that,” said Greg Norman, chief executive of LIV Golf.

The PGA Tour indefinitely banned all its members, including Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, within minutes of them teeing off in the first LIV event at Centurion Club, near London, earlier this month.