The players of LIV Golf, Super League supported by Saudi Arabiaand the appearance is ruining the world of golf, has requested that the world ranking committee reconsider the points they believe they have scored in tour events.
“The world ranking without LIV players is incomplete and inaccurate,” they argued in a letter to the president of OGWR committee, Peter Dawsonsaying this is similar to the exclusion of England, Argentina and Belgium from the FIFA rankings.
The 48 signatories who disputed the Chicago LIV last weekend, with the winner, the Australian cameron smith (number 3 in the world) and the former number 1, the American Dustin Johnson, requested that they be awarded the points of the 54-hole tournaments (three rounds) they played, under the same conditions as the other 72 -hole tournaments (four rounds) organized by the North American PGA Tour.
The American Billy Horschela PGA Tour member preparing for Presidents Cup, a competition that pits golfers from the United States against a selection from the rest of the world (except Europe) and begins this Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina, said that LIV does not meet the criteria in scoring and its players knew the risks when they joined the breakaway tour.
“It’s a process that will take between a year and 18 months. So wait. Meet the criteria. From what I’ve told, they don’t meet the top nine on the list. They don’t have an average field of 78 players, they don’t have a cut, they don’t have pre-tournament qualifications…”, he listed among other things.
The stakes for these golfers are high, as the points they accumulate allow them to qualify for Grand Slam tournaments. This year, they were allowed to play the US Open and British Open (won by Cameron Smith), as LIV Golf was launched after these two majors.
“The level of competition in an LIV Tour event is at least equal to a PGA event,” the players said. “We know because we’ve played with both.”
The letter notes that the Super League counts 21 of the last 51 major tournament winners among its participants and highlights Johnson’s fall from 13th to 22nd in the world rankings, despite winning, finishing second and finished third. place in the final events of the new tour.
“We urge you to make a positive decision quickly, in the interest of the integrity of eligibility, the game and all of us who love the sport,” the letter concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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