LIV golfers continue to drop significantly in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR).
The Saudi-backed circuit is not an officially sanctioned tour in the eyes of OWGR, so LIV players cannot receive OWGR points at LIV golf events. You can only earn points from Major Championships, DP World Tour events, or Asian Tour events.
The league has a 54-hole, shotgun start format with no cuts and a limited field.
“It’s a truism that LIV players are good enough to be ranked,” Peter Dawson, former R&A chief and current chairman of the OWGR board, said in October.
“They’re not playing in a format that allows them to be fairly ranked against the other 24 tours and the thousands of players who are trying to compete on that tour.”
Still, LIV golfers were told by LIV Golf executives: Receive OWGR points If they join the league.
“They definitely said we would get him, but we haven’t got him yet,” Carlos Ortiz explained. Below Average Podcast with Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz.
OWGR continues to award LIV Golf no points in any event despite a top-notch field that currently includes Jon Rahm, Tyrell Hatton, and Adrian Mellonk.
Ortiz elaborated on the issue further, saying that golf’s governing bodies need to find a way to award points to LIV Golf, despite its format and ephemerality.
“I feel like people need to recognize that there are good players out there.” [on LIV Golf]And if you’re going to create a world ranking that includes all golfers, you have to include some people,” Ortiz explained.
“I understand that we are outside the system. It will take time to become part of the system, but if [OWGR] To be accurate, it must include all types of players. ”
Critics of OWGR charge that its rankings do not accurately represent professional golfers. As a result, many players, journalists and fans alike have turned to DataGolf as a more accurate representation of the player’s position.
Ortiz is currently ranked 1,229th in the world, according to OWGR. To put his fall into perspective, he was ranked 56th at the end of 2021, six months before joining LIV Golf.
At DataGolf, Ortiz Player ranked 125th The Mexican has six top-10 finishes in his LIV Golf career.
“I’m not saying I should have gotten it in the first place. I know there are certain rules and I knew from the beginning that there would be consequences and setbacks, but I accepted them.” added Ortiz.
“Of course I wish I could change those things and I wish I could be part of an ecosystem where I can rank and compete freely with other players, not just the majors. I think there’s a way and there’s definitely enough evidence that we have good players and a legitimate tour to be ranked.”
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