Ex-LIV Golf star maps out plan into major championships with historic PGA Tour spot up for grabs
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Laurie Canter has revealed his main aim for the 2025 season is to play his way into the major championships, with a debut at the Masters on his radar. Canter is in the Middle East for the Hero Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour, fresh off starring for GB&Ireland in their Team Cup victory over Continental Europe last week. Having won three points out of four in the matchplay event, Canter has seen his impressive form continue at Emirates Golf Club.
The Englishman finds himself sat at eight-under-par heading into the weekend, after carding back-to-back rounds of 68 across the opening two rounds of the first Rolex Series event of the season. Playing in one of the Tour's biggest events of the campaign is an important step for Canter, whose career had come to somewhat of a crossroads in recent years. Having spent two years playing on the LIV setup, Canter's exemption category allowed him to return to his home Tour sanction-free last year.
And with the 35-year-old arguably playing some of the best golf of his career at the moment, he is keen to take full advantage of the opportunities he has this season. “It is really important," Canter told reporters including Mirror Sport of teeing it up in Dubai. "You need to be playing these Rolex events and playing well in them, and that is the stuff that opens doors.
"I think every player that is playing here wants to be playing majors and big tournaments. At the moment if you choose to play the LIV stuff you don’t get ranking points, but it was my choice to do that. But I think at the moment it is just trying to get my head down.
