LIV golfers proceed to plummet down the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR).
For the reason that Saudi-backed circuit is just not an formally sanctioned tour within the eyes of the OWGR, gamers on LIV can not obtain OWGR factors in LIV Golf occasions. They’ll solely earn factors from main championships, DP World Tour occasions, or Asian Tour occasions.
The league employs a 54-hole, shotgun-start format, no cuts, and a restricted area.
“LIV gamers are self-evidently adequate to be ranked,” mentioned Peter Dawson, the previous R&A Chief and present chairman of the OWGR board in October.
“They’re simply not taking part in in a format the place they are often ranked equitably with the opposite 24 excursions and 1000’s of gamers attempting to compete on them.”
And but, LIV golfers have been informed by LIV Golf executives that they would obtain OWGR factors in the event that they joined the league.
“They positively mentioned that we have been going to get them, and we haven’t gotten them,” defined Carlos Ortiz on the Subpar Podcast with Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz.
The OWGR continues to not award LIV Golf any factors at any of their occasions, regardless of its excessive caliber fields that now embrace Jon Rahm, Tyrell Hatton, and Adrian Meronk.
Ortiz expanded upon this concern, saying that golf’s governing our bodies have to discover a strategy to reward factors to LIV Golf, regardless of its format and transience.
“I simply really feel that folks have to acknowledge that there are good gamers [on LIV Golf], and if you will have a world rating that features all of the golf gamers, you must have some individuals included,” Ortiz defined.
“I perceive that we went out of the system, and it’ll take time to be a part of the system, but when the [OWGR] goes to be correct, they have to embrace every kind of gamers.”
Critics of the OWGR have slammed its rankings for not representing accuracy amongst skilled golfers. Because of this, many gamers, journalists, and followers alike have turned to DataGolf as a extra correct illustration of the place gamers stand.
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Ortiz is at present the 1,229th on this planet, per the OWGR. To place his downfall in perspective, on the finish of 2021, six months earlier than he joined LIV Golf, he was 56th.
On DataGolf, Ortiz is listed because the A hundred and twenty fifth-ranked participant on this planet, because the Mexican has recorded six top-10s throughout his LIV Golf profession.
“I’m not saying we must always have gotten them from the start. I do know there have been sure guidelines, and I knew from the start that there can be penalties and setbacks, however I’ve accepted them,” Ortiz added.
“Clearly, I want I might change them, and I want we may very well be a part of that ecosystem the place we may be ranked and compete freely, not solely in majors however towards different gamers. I feel there’s a method, and there may be positively sufficient proof that now we have a respectable tour the place there are good gamers and must be ranked.”
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