LIV golfer shockingly lied to about incomes OWGR factors in occasions

LIV golfers proceed to plummet down the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR).

Because the Saudi-backed circuit will not be an formally sanctioned tour within the eyes of the OWGR, gamers on LIV can’t obtain OWGR factors in LIV Golf occasions. They will 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 subject.

“LIV gamers are self-evidently ok to be ranked,” stated Peter Dawson, the previous R&A Chief and present chairman of the OWGR board in October.

“They’re simply not enjoying in a format the place they are often ranked equitably with the opposite 24 excursions and hundreds of gamers making an attempt 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 undoubtedly stated 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 embody Jon Rahm, Tyrell Hatton, and Adrian Meronk.

Ortiz expanded upon this subject, saying that golf’s governing our bodies must discover a approach to reward factors to LIV Golf, regardless of its format and transience.

“I simply really feel that individuals have to acknowledge that there are good gamers [on LIV Golf], and if you’ll 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 will take time to be a part of the system, but when the [OWGR] goes to be correct, they need to embody all types 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 the moment the 1,229th on the earth, 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 the earth, because the Mexican has recorded six top-10s throughout his LIV Golf profession.

“I’m not saying we should always have gotten them from the start. I do know there have been sure guidelines, and I knew from the start that there could be penalties and setbacks, however I’ve accepted them,” Ortiz added.

“Clearly, I want I may change them, and I want we could possibly be a part of that ecosystem the place we could be ranked and compete freely, not solely in majors however towards different gamers. I feel there’s a manner, and there may be undoubtedly sufficient proof that we now have a official tour the place there are good gamers and needs to be ranked.”

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. Be sure you try @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You may comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko as properly.