LIV Golf’s bid to be recognised by the sport’s global rankings body has been rejected.
Aussie golf icon Greg Norman has been sent a letter that has dealt a hammer blow to everything he has worked towards for two years.first reported that Official World Golf Ranking had turned down LIV’s request due to the circuit’s 54-hole no-cut format and limited access for players to join the venture.
“At the meeting, the Board Committee unanimously determined that at this time the LIV Tour will not be recognised as an Eligible Golf Tour in the OWGR system.”The issue of whether LIV players should be granted rankings points has been a thorny subject of debate since the lavishly funded Saudi Arabia-backed circuit plunged golf into an acrimonious civil war last year.
Dawson told Global Golf Post that OWGR’s decision was not aimed at punishing players who had joined LIV. “This is about, should a tour whose formats are so different and whose qualification criteria are so different, can they be ranked equitably with other tours who conform to the OWGR norm and have more competition to them than perhaps the closed shop that is LIV?”
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