Andy Ogletree

## **Andy Ogletree: A determined route to the top with LIV Golf** Andy Ogletree was not given an easy path on his way to becoming a full-time professional with the LIV Golf League. A member of Phil Mickelson’s HyFlyers GC, Ogletree completed his first full season in 2024 – but it wasn’t his first LIV Golf rodeo. Ogletree had taken part in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event in London in 2022 and played three more times as a reserve the following season. The 26-year-old from Little Rock near Union, Mississippi finally earned his place after an all-conquering season on the Asian Tour in 2023. The battles did not end there as his debut season with LIV was blighted by a wrist injury that eventually required surgery in October 2024 to remove a chipped off bone spur that had calcified. “It was a long year dealing with it,” he told Fairway To Heaven, LIV Golf’s official podcast. “Some days were good, some days were bad, some days I’d wake up and it would be super sore. “As the tournament week went on it would get more and more inflamed and I would have compensatory patterns in my golf swing trying to avoid the pain. “I would also have pains in other parts of the wrist where those muscles are having to work harder to avoid the pain of the actual problem.” Despite those limitations, Ogletree still achieved a season-best T3 at LIV Golf Adelaide in April, and T6 at July’s event in the UK on the way to securing 34th-place in the individual rankings. That guaranteed his participation with LIV Golf for another season and HyFlyers GC were keen to keep their man on board for 2025.