PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, European tour CEO Keith Pelley and Keith Waters of the International Federation of PGA Tours recused themselves from the LIV Golf determination to keep away from any battle of curiosity; LIV Golf can reapply to be a part of the Official World Golf Ranking system
Last Updated: 10/10/23 8:32pm
Jamie Weir explains why the Official World Golf Ranking board have come to the conclusion that LIV Golf gamers will be unable to earn world ranking points.
Jamie Weir explains why the Official World Golf Ranking board have come to the conclusion that LIV Golf gamers will be unable to earn world ranking points.
LIV Golf is enjoying just for money, not world ranking points, after the Official World Golf Ranking board decided it couldn’t pretty measure the 48-man league with the opposite 24 excursions across the world.
The OWGR rejected the appliance from Saudi-backed LIV Golf, first submitted in July 2022 after the league already had performed two of its 54-hole, no-cut events.
“We are not at war with them,” Peter Dawson, chairman of the OWGR board, mentioned when contacted by The Associated Press.
“This decision not to make them eligible is not political. It is entirely technical.
“LIV gamers are self-evidently adequate to be ranked. They’re simply not enjoying in a format the place they are often ranked equitably with the opposite 24 excursions and hundreds of gamers attempting to compete on them.”
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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, European tour CEO Keith Pelley and Keith Waters of the International Federation of PGA Tours previously recused themselves from the LIV Golf decision to avoid any conflict of interest.
The PGA Tour, European tour and Saudi backers of LIV Golf (Public Investment Fund) are currently working out a commercial partnership that was announced in June.
The committee that rejected LIV’s application comprised leaders from Augusta National, the PGA of America, the US Golf Association and The R&A, which run the four majors. The majors use the OWGR as part of their qualifying criteria.
LIV Golf made its debut in June 2022, with players who joined the rival league suspended by the PGA Tour and European tour, ensuring that their only access to points was the majors.
When LIV Golf complete its inaugural season, it had 12 players from the top 50 in the world (led by British Open champion Cameron Smith) and 24 of the top 100. In this week’s ranking, Smith (15th) and PGA champion Brooks Koepka (18th) are the only players from the top 50, and LIV has only six players among the top 100.
Talor Gooch of RangeGoats GC celebrates winning on the 18th green during the final round of LIV Golf Andalucia back in July
Among those no longer in the top 100 are Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Talor Gooch, who has three LIV Golf victories this year.
“Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, after all they need to be within the ranking,” Dawson added. “We want to discover a means to get that accomplished.
“I hope that LIV can find a solution – not so much their format; that can be dealt with through a mathematical formula – but the qualification and relegation.”
Speaking forward of the US Open, Sergio Garcia claimed that if LIV Golf was to disband he would look to re-join the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour.
LIV Golf can reapply to be a part of the OWGR system, although the board made it clear that turnover, goal entry to LIV Golf and relegating gamers who do not carry out stay key points in getting ranking points.
‘Ruling a hammer blow to LIV Golf’
Sky Sports News’ Jamie Weir:
“Essentially, LIV Golf have been hoisted by their own petard. Their format, which amounts to a closed shop, is the reason why they won’t be getting world ranking points – as things stand the moment.
“They are ready to change their format and reapply, however the truth that they’re the identical 48 gamers competing in opposition to one another the entire time – there is not sufficient fluctuation, there is not promotion and relegation to change that – is what signifies that, beneath the OWGR’s rules, they don’t seem to be eligible to earn ranking points.
“There’s the likes of Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter on these guaranteed contracts where, regardless of how they perform – and they’re all sitting outside the top 24 in LIV at the moment – they are guaranteed their place next year.
“I suppose if you consider it as a younger golfer attempting to work your means up by the feeder excursions on to the PGA Tour and also you grind away to make a minimize, it is solely then that you just begin incomes world ranking points. Well, how might or not it’s truthful then that any person who’s invited onto an invitational tour or right into a closed store will get world ranking points simply by dint of turning up. That is the true concern.
“As I say, they’re nonetheless ready to reapply, however there isn’t any doubt, it is a hammer blow for LIV Golf.
Rory McIlroy says the merger between PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf ‘is not LIV’ and reassures fans he still ‘hates LIV Golf’.
“The main caveat although that we’d like to put in right here is that no one, and I imply no one, in world golf is aware of what the long run holds. We’re all in this type of limbo standing at the second the place we do not know what the result is of this deal that blindsided all people again in June between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund.
“How is men’s professional golf going to look next year? Is LIV Golf going continue to exist? Are those players who left going to be reintegrated back into PGA Tour? Do they even want to be reintegrated back into the PGA Tour and how’s that tour going to look? These are all questions that are completely unanswered at the moment.”
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