LIV Golf

There will be no World Ranking points awarded for the next two LIV Golf events as the OWGR reviews changes in the wake of LIV's new partnership with the ...

[who has slipped to 23rd in the world](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-players-falling-in-official-world-golf-ranking-dustin-johnson-phil-mickelson-patrick-reed), said in a press conference on Thursday. [as their respective rankings on the OWGR continue to fall](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-players-falling-in-official-world-golf-ranking-dustin-johnson-phil-mickelson-patrick-reed). The OWGR added in its statement on Thursday that official MENA Tour events played over 54 or 72 holes with a 36-hole cut remain eligible for OWGR inclusion. [which submitted an application to OWGR on behalf of LIV on July 6](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-owgr-st-andrews). "None of this communication pointed towards any technical reason for the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok to be treated any differently to any MENA Tour event, every one of which has received OWGR since we were accepted into the OWGR framework in 2016. The events listed offer purses of $20 million or $75,000 and the letter states that “all events shall be open to MENA Tour members to enter.” It now appears to have the ability to go forward with financial help from LIV Golf while absorbing LIV events into its schedule—and thereby ostensibly helping LIV to “Only after the review is complete will a decision be made on awarding points to the MENA Tour’s new ‘Limited Field Tournaments’, defined by the MENA Tour in its Regulations as ‘any MENA Tour-approved tournament, which comprises of a player field of less than 80 players.’” “I think for the World Golf Rankings, this is a great way to keep its credibility, while not bringing in politics into the decision-making process. LIV officials touted the move as a way for its LIV Golf Invitational events, which don’t currently receive points, to immediately begin doing so starting with no-cut 54-hole tournament that gets underway on Friday. On Thursday, the MENA Tour sent a letter to its membership—which now includes LIV golfers—with an updated schedule through June 2023 and revisions to its player categories. The 48 players in the field at Stonehill are playing for another $25 million and, seemingly, with a growing chip on their shoulders.

In a move that indicates how quickly LIV Golf wants world ranking points for its 48-man fields, it created an alliance with the little-known MENA Tour, which ...

LIV Golf already has invested $US300 million ($A467 million) in the Asian Tour, creating an “International Series” that began this year. LIV Golf events, in contrast, have a $US20 million ($A31 million) purse for 54-hole events with no cut. The OWGR said in a statement on Thursday that the MENA Tour did not give it sufficient notice and there would not be time to finish the review ahead of the LIV Golf Invitational in Bangkok that starts on Friday, nor the event in Saudi Arabia next week.

LIV golfer Anirban Lahiri said he was aware of at least 20 people who were flying from India to Bangkok to watch him play at this week's event, and he's ...

It is expected to feature some LIV golfers and showcase the LIV brand at events across Asia. But if you look at where golf courses are being constructed all over the world, 60 to 70 percent of new golf courses are in Asia.” “We are absolutely aspiring for them to build and have a significant value,” he said. “It’s pretty obvious to say the current situation in golf has significantly accelerated that process,” Keith Pelley, chief executive of the DP World Tour, told reporters in June, shortly after LIV staged its first event. The four-man squads aren’t a team in name only, they say, but they’re functioning separately, hiring their own staff, taking control of their own branding and merchandising with the ability to sell their own commercial rights. The Aussie squad, for example, essentially would be the home team for an event in Melbourne, and the U.K. “And the only way we could do that is, we had to build it first.” Officials hope fans grow attached to the teams and form the type of staunch loyalties that serve as bedrock in other team sports. In the United States, the LIV product has struggled to stir much interest from traditional networks that broadcast golf, according to multiple people familiar with discussions, or with streaming services, such as Amazon and Apple. The golfers have been sorted into teams that highlight their nationalities and backgrounds. “From Day One, we’ve viewed golf as a global sport,” Atul Khosla, the LIV president and chief operating officer, said in recent interview. From Thailand, the LIV series will then head to Saudi Arabia for a tournament Oct.

If there feels like a bit of desperation in LIV Golf's latest attempt to find a way for its events to offer Official World Golf Ranking points – partnering ...

And the Open Championship takes the top 50 players in the ranking eight weeks prior. If they want to pivot to meet the criteria, they can… “I think if Dustin Johnson is somewhere around 100th in the world then it’s not an accurate reflection of where he is in the game.” The US Open takes the top 60 players at two points in the weeks ahead of its championship. The Masters takes the top 50 at the end of the calendar year and a week prior to the tournament. [LIV formally applied for OWGR accreditation](https://www.australiangolfdigest.com.au/liv-golf-applies-for-owgr-points-board-meeting-in-st-andrews-to-examine-request/), and OWGR chairman Peter Dawson said the board has begun to review the application.

Dustin Johnson said they deserve them and Phil Mickelson declared it was a “win on all parts”, but Greg Norman's shrewd move to get his LIV golfers crucial ...

Scotsman Ryan Lumsden won the last full MENA Tour event in Aqaba, Jordan, in 2020 and earnt just three world ranking points for his win as well as $20,000. But as LIV players await the news on their quest for world ranking points, the MENA Tour stands as the early winner in Norman’s latest move. Norman and LIV Golf sent a letter to the OWGR last month, signed by all the players, demanding its request for ranking points be accepted to reflect a “a transparent, credible, and accurate ranking based on the relative performances of players.” “Yeah, I mean, for me, I think we deserve them. “I think it’s fair. The MENA Tour added two LIV events, in Bangkok and Jedda, and applied for them to be given world ranking points.

LIV Golf's latest scheme to earn to official ranking points saw it swallowed by an obscure Middle Eastern tour. It's just the latest chapter in golf's ...

This week, news emerged that LIV had formed a "strategic alliance" with the Middle East and North Africa Tour, a largely developmental tour that hasn't hosted an event since pre-COVID. This is a major point of contention for everyone involved in LIV Golf. They require a clear means of qualification for events, so anyone within professional golf's wider ecosystem could theoretically compete, which LIV does not have. Another point of contention. Among other things, this system is used to aid in qualification for some major tournaments. To that end, he is most certainly succeeding.

Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more-illustrious opponents to shoot 7-under 65s and take the lead after the first ...

“We certainly believe that there’s enough that are in the top 50, and we deserve to be getting world ranking points. The MENA Tour stands for Middle East and North Africa and is a developmental tour that has been getting the bare minimum of world ranking points since 2016. LIV Golf created an alliance with the little-known MENA Tour, which hasn’t run a tournament of its own since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more-illustrious opponents on Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after ...

[Richard Bland](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1441/richard-bland), [Branden Grace](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/4383/branden-grace) and [Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/456546/eugenio-lopez-chacarra) upstaged their more illustrious opponents Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after the first round of the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok. [Dustin Johnson](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3448/dustin-johnson), who leads the money list with just over $12.5 million in five events, shot 70. MENA stands for Middle East and North Africa, and the MENA Tour is a developmental tour that has been getting the bare minimum of world ranking points since 2016. "We've hit every mark in their criteria, so for us not to get points is kind of crazy with having the top -- at least I believe we have the top -- players in the world," DeChambeau said. LIV Golf created an alliance with the little-known MENA Tour, which hasn't run a tournament of its own since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the start of play, players learned that they still won't accrue world ranking points on the LIV series.

LIV Golf returns for the next event as they leave the United States, this time for Stonehill Golf Course in Bangkok, Thailand today. DAZN is showing all three ...

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Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more illustrious opponents Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after the ...

[Richard Bland](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1441/richard-bland), [Branden Grace](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/4383/branden-grace) and [Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/456546/eugenio-lopez-chacarra) upstaged their more illustrious opponents Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after the first round of the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok. [Dustin Johnson](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3448/dustin-johnson), who leads the money list with just over $12.5 million in five events, shot 70. MENA stands for Middle East and North Africa, and the MENA Tour is a developmental tour that has been getting the bare minimum of world ranking points since 2016. "We've hit every mark in their criteria, so for us not to get points is kind of crazy with having the top -- at least I believe we have the top -- players in the world," DeChambeau said. LIV Golf created an alliance with the little-known MENA Tour, which hasn't run a tournament of its own since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the start of play, players learned that they still won't accrue world ranking points on the LIV series.

LIV Golf announced a “strategic alliance” with the Dubai-based developmental MENA Tour on Wednesday in an effort to gain Official World Golf Ranking points ...

“None of this communication pointed towards any technical reason for the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok to be treated any differently to any MENA Tour event, every one of which has received OWGR since we were accepted into the OWGR framework in 2016.” “Notice of these changes given by the MENA Tour is insufficient to allow OWGR to conduct the customary necessary review ahead of the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok (Oct. [the OWGR released a statement](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/10/06/liv-golf-news-official-world-golf-ranking-mena-tour-bangkok-jeddah/) announcing that neither LIV event would earn OWGR points and that, “A review of the changes to the MENA Tour is now underway by the OWGR.”

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Tour commissioner David Spencer has hit back at the Official World Golf Ranking body's snub of LIV Golf.

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Richard Bland is part of a three-way tie for the lead after a low-scoring opening round at the latest LIV Golf Invitational Series event in Bangkok.

Not including our event in this week's OWGR render the results and subsequent player movements inaccurate." Recently, there has been much talk in the golf world about limited field tournaments and 54-hole tournaments. In the team competition, Fireballs GC - led by Sergio Garcia and containing Lopez-Chacarra - hold a one-shot lead on 14 under over Cleeks GC.

Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka have hit out at the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) decision to not award LIV Golf world ranking points at this ...

Not including our event in this week's OWGR render the results and subsequent player movements inaccurate." Recently, there has been much talk in the golf world about limited field tournaments and 54-hole tournaments. "We've hit every mark in their criteria, so for us not to get points is kind of crazy with having the top - at least I believe we have the top players in the world. If it's yes, if it's no, it's fine, we'll figure it out from there." "Yeah, not to say something to where it's not really an answer and we'll think about it. From my perspective, I think we deserve points."

Chacarra is one of three golfers tied atop the leaderboard after the first 18 holes in Thailand.

"When they keep holding it back, they're going to just keep playing a waiting game where we're going to keep dropping down in the rankings to where our points won't ever matter," DeChambeau continued. The Englishman is not necessarily the longest player in the world, and he has not played his best golf in recent months. Johnson, Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann all struggled in the first round and are unlikely to seriously threaten without a massive effort on Day 2. I feel my game is getting better every week, and today I thought about what I was doing in college the last couple years when I had all the success, and I was just trying to play to not make bogeys," said Chacarra. Joining LIV Golf in Portland, the Spaniard's team claimed a spot on the podium in dramatic fashion thanks to a 54th-hole birdie from Carlos Ortiz. Koepka has struggled in his four prior LIV appearances and has yet to crack the top 10.

'Lies': DeChambeau tees off in bitter debate tearing golf apart.

LIV Golf is not currently recognised by OWGR, meaning LIV players tumble down the rankings. “We deserve to be getting world ranking points. “They’re delaying the inevitable. “Not including our event in this week’s OWGR render the results and subsequent player movements inaccurate,” David Spencer, commissioner of the MENA Tour, said in a statement. [said that players will not receive ranking points at the ongoing Bangkok event](https://www.foxsports.com.au/golf/pga-tour-2022-liv-golf-series-denied-official-world-golf-ranking-points-reaction-greg-norman-video/news-story/649c4509dab84e94843eb050c613506f) or at the next LIV tournament in Jeddah next week. Big-hitting American star Bryson DeChambeau insisted that the failure to award world-ranking points to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf event in Thailand was just “delaying the inevitable” and blasted “lies” that have plagued the rebel tour.

Life, like Greg Norman's argument for instant world ranking points, is all a matter of perspective. From one perspective, LIV Golf is staging tournaments ...

“The one thing that has been frustrating from the start of this is that they don’t want to play by the rules that have been in place for so long. The PGA Tour, for example, has a Q-school that feeds to the Korn Ferry Tour, which feeds to the PGA Tour. “We’ve hit every mark in their criteria, so for us not to get points is kind of crazy with having – at least I believe – we have the top players in the world. “Only after the review is complete will a decision be made on awarding points to the MENA Tour’s new ‘Limited Field Tournaments,’ defined by the MENA Tour in its Regulations as ‘any MENA Tour-approved tournament, which comprises of a player field of less than 80 players.’” But if LIV is looking for the OWGR to expedite the process and do its members a favor, this might not be the most sympathetic group. The committee then instructs the applicant on the status of its proposal and what changes it might make to better satisfy OWGR requirements. LIV has pointed out that the PGA Tour has no-cut, limited-field events, like the Tour Championship or the Sentry Tournament of Champions. There’s also a 10-person Technical Committee, which we’ll get to in a second, but if you’re LIV and you’re looking at the above list, you might not be particularly enthused. That governing board is chaired by Peter Dawson, the former Chief Executive of the R&A, and is comprised of representatives from the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour, the International Federation of PGA Tours and then one rep from each of the bodies that run the four majors. There’s likely to be more of all of the above. From another perspective, LIV is staging a brand-new tournament series of limited, closed-field events that satisfy only a portion of the OWGR criteria. 1s and some of the most recognizable names and biggest personalities in the sport.