The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) introduced LIV Golf gamers will not obtain world ranking points for his or her occasions in Bangkok and Jeddah, regardless of their new ‘strategic alliance’ with the MENA Tour
Last Updated: 07/10/22 1:25pm
Bryson DeChambeau has criticised the decision by the OWGR not to award LIV Golf world ranking points
Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka have hit out on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) decision to not award LIV Golf world ranking points at this week’s occasion in Bangkok.
The Saudi-funded breakaway circuit introduced a brand new strategic alliance with the MENA Tour on Wednesday, a transfer they believed “would immediately qualify LIV Golf for OWGR points”, with all LIV Golf members becoming a member of the Dubai-based golf tour.
The OWGR responded a day later to say that they had been given inadequate discover of the event, ruling out the prospect of world ranking points being made accessible over the ultimate two common LIV Golf occasions this season.
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“They’re delaying the inevitable,” DeChambeau mentioned after the opening spherical of the LIV Golf occasion in Bangkok. “We’ve hit every mark in their criteria, so for us not to get points is kind of crazy with having the top – at least I believe we have the top players in the world.
“Not all of them, however we actually imagine that there is sufficient which might be within the prime 50 and we deserve to be getting world ranking points.
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“When they [OWGR] keep holding it back, they’re going to just keep playing a waiting game where we’re going to keep dropping down in the rankings to where our points won’t even matter.
“That’s what they’re making an attempt to accomplish, and I hope that folks can see proper via that quite than imagine the lies that they have been informed. From my perspective, I believe we deserve points.”
All LIV Golf events this season have been played without world ranking points available, with the OWGR insisting any decision on awarding ranking points would only be made following a review.
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“I do not suppose it [the OWGR statement] actually was a lot of a response,” Koepka said. “I simply hate whenever you sit on the fence. Just choose a facet. If it is sure or no, simply choose one. I’m not an enormous fan of that.
“Yeah, not to say something to where it’s not really an answer and we’ll think about it. Just pick a side. If it’s yes, if it’s no, it’s fine, we’ll figure it out from there.”
MENA Tour criticises OWGR decision
MENA Tour commissioner David Spencer launched an announcement on Friday in response to the OWGR’s decision and insisted the LIV Golf event in Bangkok fitted the standards for world ranking points.
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The assertion learn: “We have had various communications with OWGR since submitting our 2022/23 schedule, MENA Tour handbook, exemption criteria and our field ahead of our opening event of our new season which tees off today.
“None of this communication pointed in direction of any technical cause for the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok to be handled any in a different way to any MENA Tour occasion, each considered one of which has obtained OWGR since we have been accepted into the OWGR framework in 2016.
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“We have followed the OWGR guidelines for our 2022/23 season. Recently, there has been much talk in the golf world about limited field tournaments and 54-hole tournaments. For absolute clarity, the OWGR itself defines a limited field tournament as a tournament which has less than 30 qualified players. Furthermore, the MENA Tour has always had the OWGR’s blessing to stage 54- hole tournaments.
“The OWGR states: ‘The main goal of the Ranking is to keep, assessment, replace, administer and promote the popularity of a system that pretty ranks the relative efficiency of golfers taking part within the main males’s skilled tournaments all through the world’.
“Clearly, the MENA Tour’s first event of the 2022/23 season, the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok, is one of those tournaments and accordingly should be included in this week’s OWGR events. Not including our event in this week’s OWGR render the results and subsequent player movements inaccurate.”
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