Abraham Ancer

Ancer shared the news via social media, "As a passionate entrepreneur, I am excited about my endeavors outside of the game of golf. Additionally, the new opportunity provides me more time to invest and give back to the game by helping it grow and flourish in my home country of Mexico." You can read his full statement linked below. Ancer joins an ever-growing list of players that are defecting to the LIV Golf league. 

Gamers will have just a few minutes to make lineup changes in weekly fantasy formats. Ancer was set to make his fourth appearance at the U.S. Open. In his place, Kizzire will be playing his third U.S. Open with missed cuts in his two previous tries (2016, 2019). 

Overall, this is Texas-born Mexican's second top 10 in 13 majors, first since this event last year at Kiawah Island, where he back-doored a T8 with a week-low bogey-free 65 (7 birdies). He improves to 11-for-15 on the season with three top 10s, first since T5 at the WGC-Match Play four starts ago, and ends a streak of MC-T59-MC in between last year's PGA and this year's edition. For the week, the Oklahoma alum posted progressively worse rounds of 67-69-70-73, totaled 12 birdies versus 11 bogeys, and ranked 17th SG: Approach (4.594), 60th SG: Around (-0.875), lowlighted by a -1.672 today, and 14th SG: Putting (3.863), losing strokes (-0.886) with the flat stick on Sunday for the first time this week, where he outbalanced one birdie at hole 5 (from 15'8") with four squares at 1, 7, 8 and 9 (3-putt from 43'8"). See link below to post-round comments. 

The Oklahoma alum, who dusted two-time past champ and playing competitor Rory McIlroy by four shots today, will be in the third-to-last pairing on Sunday with first-timer Seamus Power. After kicking off with 67-69, T5 and five back of leader Will Zalatoris (73), he traded two birdies at holes 5 and 17 (from 9'8") with two bogey-5s at 7 and 10 (missed par-saver from 4'7"), posting a -0.131 SG: Approach but a +1.375 SG: Putting. Thru 54 holes, the Texas-born Mexican has totaled 11 birdies against seven bogeys, and ranks 13th SG: TTG (7.196) and 8th SG: Putting (4.758), but despite the lofty ranking with the flat stick, mentioned post-round (link below) that, "We've just got to make more putts." This is his first time in the top 10 at the three-quarter mark since the CJ CUP @ SUMMIT back in October, where he was T3 before fading to T14 (70-65-63-71), and his best finish in a major in 12 priors -- and lone top 10 -- is a back-door T8 at last year's PGA at Kiawah Island, where he closed with a week-low bogey-free 65 (7 birdies).