LIV golfers aren’t being kept out of the four men’s majors by the organisations that run them. But that isn’t stopping another high-profile club that runs what some have affectionately called “the year’s first major” from saying no to the pros on the new circuit.

The tee sheet for the Seminole Pro-Member tournament, which takes place on Monday at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Florida, has been released, and there is a noticeable absence: no members of the LIV Golf League are participating.

Monday’s Seminole Pro-Member features 12 of the top-20 players in OWGR, a better field than both Honda and LIV Mayakoba. Marquee group includes World No. 1 Jon Rahm, Tony Finau and NFL star Tom Brady.

A month ago, Golfweek reported that Seminole would not be inviting any LIV players, despite the fact they would likely be available to compete as the tour wrapped up its season-opening event at Mayakoba Resort in Mexico on Sunday.

The Seminole Pro-Member was started in 2004, the two-person team event traditionally being played on the Monday after the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic. Over the years, it has seen its field filled by a who’s who of top-ranked men’s and women’s players. In 2022, former major winners Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Adam Scott and Shane Lowry were among those competing, along with LPGA standouts Nelly and Jessica Korda.

Past winners of the event have included Davis Love III, Rickie Fowler (three times), McIlroy, and a year ago, Patrick Cantlay.

“We are doing what we have always done,” Seminole president Jimmy Dunne told Golfweek. “PGA Tour players get the first priority. This event has always been supported by the PGA Tour. We try to make this a special and unique day for tour players.”

The stance from Dunne and the club is not that surprising, even when you consider that Dunne himself has teamed with now LIV players Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson in the past. Dunne was appointed to PGA Tour Policy Board in November. Two other Seminole members, Ed Herlihy and Mark Flaherty, are also PGA Tour board members (Herlihy is the board chair; Flaherty is the member who won the title with Cantlay in 2022). The PGA Tour has banned any players who compete on the LIV Golf circuit from playing in PGA Tour events and is in the midst of a lawsuit with the golf league.

Several players now playing for LIV competed in the 2022 Pro-Member, including Johnson, Ian Poulter, Martin Kaymer, Sergio Garcia, Cameron Tringale, Peter Uihlein, Hudson Swafford, Bubba Watson, Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace, Harold Varner III and Andy Ogletree.