LIV Golf’s quote to be acknowledged by the sport’s international rankings body has actually been turned down, the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) organisation verified on Tuesday. OWGR stated it had actually refused LIV’s demand due to the circuit’s 54-hole no-cut format and minimal gain access to for gamers to sign up with the endeavor. OWGR president Peter Dawson notified LIV president Greg Norman of the choice in an open letter sent out on Tuesday. “The Board Committee satisfied just recently to once again evaluate your OWGR submission because of your most current actions to the Committee’s concerns and issues,” Dawson composed in the letter. “At the conference, the Board Committee all identified that at this time the LIV Tour will not be acknowledged as an Eligible Golf Tour in the OWGR system.” Dawson stated there was no “reasonable and fair” method of consisting of LIV Golf’s gamers in OWGR’s rankings. The concern of whether LIV gamers need to be approved rankings points has actually been a tough topic of dispute given that the extravagantly moneyed Saudi Arabia-backed circuit plunged golf into an acrimonious civil war in 2015. Rankings points were viewed as a vital action in LIV’s advancements, providing its gamers the possibility to protect credentials for significant champions. Dawson informed United States media outlets that OWGR’s choice was not targeted at penalizing gamers who had actually signed up with LIV. “This is totally technical. OWGR has no hostility towards LIV whatsoever,” Dawson was estimated as stating. “The essential point is this is not about the gamers. LIV gamers are self-evidently sufficient to be ranked; there is no doubt about that. “This has to do with, should a trip whose formats are so various and whose certification requirements are so various, can they be ranked equitably with other trips who comply with the OWGR standard and have more competitors to them than possibly the closed store that is LIV?” In a declaration provided later on Tuesday, LIV Golf knocked the OWGR judgment. “OWGR’s sole goal is to rank the very best gamers around the world. Today’s interaction explains that it can no longer provide on that goal,” the circuit stated. “A ranking which stops working to relatively represent all individuals, regardless of where on the planet they play golf, robs fans, gamers and all of golf’s stakeholders of the unbiased basis underpinning any precise acknowledgment of the world’s finest gamer efficiencies. “It likewise robs some standard competitions of the very best fields possible. Expert golf is now without a real or worldwide scoring and ranking system.” The PGA Tour shocked world golf in June after revealing a shock arrangement with the LIV’s Saudi paymasters focused on ending the sport’s two-year civil war. Firm information of how the “brand-new jointly owned, for-profit entity” that will see the PGA Tour, Europe’s DP World Tour and LIV Golf combine have yet to be disclosed.
LIV Golf quote for ranking points turned down by main body
