The Official World Golf Rating (OWGR) introduced LIV Golf gamers won’t obtain world rating factors for his or her occasions in Bangkok and Jeddah, regardless of their new ‘strategic alliance’ with the MENA Tour

Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka have hit out on the Official World Golf Rating (OWGR) determination to not award LIV Golf world rating factors at this week’s occasion in Bangkok.

The Saudi-funded breakaway circuit introduced a brand new strategic alliance with the MENA Tour on Wednesday, a transfer they believed “would instantly qualify LIV Golf for OWGR factors”, with all LIV Golf members becoming a member of the Dubai-based golf tour.

The OWGR responded a day later to say that they had been given inadequate discover of the event, ruling out the prospect of world rating factors being made out there over the ultimate two common LIV Golf occasions this season.

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Dustin Johnson believes it’s truthful that LIV Tour gamers ought to earn official world rating factors

“They’re delaying the inevitable,” DeChambeau stated after the opening spherical of the LIV Golf occasion in Bangkok. “We have hit each mark of their standards, so for us to not get factors is sort of loopy with having the highest – no less than I consider now we have the highest gamers on the planet.

“Not all of them, however we definitely consider that there is sufficient which can be within the high 50 and we need to be getting world rating factors.

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Phil Mickelson is comfortable to have full help from LIV Golf as they attempt to discover methods to earn world rating factors

“Once they [OWGR] hold holding it again, they are going to simply hold taking part in a ready recreation the place we’ll hold dropping down within the rankings to the place our factors will not even matter.

“That is what they’re making an attempt to perform, and I hope that individuals can see proper by way of that somewhat than consider the lies that they have been informed. From my perspective, I feel we deserve factors.”

All LIV Golf occasions this season have been performed with out world rating factors out there, with the OWGR insisting any determination on awarding rating factors would solely be made following a assessment.

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DeChambeau believes folks ought to give LIV Golf an opportunity and says he couldn’t be happier along with his determination to affix the tour

“I do not assume it [the OWGR statement] actually was a lot of a response,” Koepka stated. “I simply hate whenever you sit on the fence. Simply choose a aspect. If it is sure or no, simply choose one. I am not a giant fan of that.

“Yeah, to not say one thing to the place it is probably not a solution and we’ll give it some thought. Simply choose a aspect. If it is sure, if it is no, it is superb, we’ll determine it out from there.”

MENA Tour criticises OWGR determination

MENA Tour commissioner David Spencer launched a press release on Friday in response to the OWGR’s determination and insisted the LIV Golf match in Bangkok fitted the standards for world rating factors.

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The assertion learn: “We now have had varied communications with OWGR since submitting our 2022/23 schedule, MENA Tour handbook, exemption standards and our discipline forward of our opening occasion of our new season which tees off immediately.

“None of this communication pointed in the direction of any technical purpose for the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok to be handled any in a different way to any MENA Tour occasion, each one in every of which has obtained OWGR since we have been accepted into the OWGR framework in 2016.

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Billy Horschel says gamers who joined LIV golf can have ‘some regrets’ and they need to perceive there are ‘penalties’ to their determination

“We now have adopted the OWGR pointers for our 2022/23 season. Not too long ago, there was a lot discuss within the golf world about restricted discipline tournaments and 54-hole tournaments. For absolute readability, the OWGR itself defines a restricted discipline match as a match which has lower than 30 certified gamers. Moreover, the MENA Tour has at all times had the OWGR’s blessing to stage 54- gap tournaments.

“The OWGR states: ‘The first goal of the Rating is to keep up, assessment, replace, administer and promote the popularity of a system that pretty ranks the relative efficiency of golfers collaborating within the main males’s skilled tournaments all through the world’.

“Clearly, the MENA Tour’s first occasion of the 2022/23 season, the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok, is a kind of tournaments and accordingly needs to be included on this week’s OWGR occasions. Not together with our occasion on this week’s OWGR render the outcomes and subsequent participant actions inaccurate.”