LIV Golf will end the year with no decision on whether the Official World Golf Ranking will approve the 54-man league to receive ranking points like golf’s other tours around the world.<\/p>\n
The OWGR also said tournaments that are played over 54 holes or even 36 holes will have a reduction in points compared with standard 72-hole events.<\/p>\n
OWGR chairman Trevor Immelman had said two weeks ago that one hurdle was that the\u00a0vast majority of LIV players\u00a0were invited to join instead of earning their way, as is the case with the other 24 tours that are part of the OWGR system.<\/p>\n
An\u00a0update sent Tuesday\u00a0said only that the board continues to evaluate LIV’s application, which the Saudi-funded league submitted in late June.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain committed to the OWGR\u2019s mission, which requires honouring the meritocracy woven into the professional game,\u201d Immelman said in a statement. “As such, discussions have been regular and remain ongoing. To be clear, progress has been made, but there is no decision to share at this time.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to work closely with LIV Golf as it continues to evolve to ensure its application is handled with fairness, integrity and consistency, as stated previously.\u201d<\/p>\n
LIV has made a couple of changes for the new season. The league announced Tuesday a 57-man field, up from 54, with five players unattached to teams. With a shotgun start, that means one threesome will have to wait for another group to tee off.<\/p>\n
It is also increasing the number of players who can earn a spot on LIV through its \u201cPromotions\u201d event next month \u2014 up from two to three. It was not clear if that extra spot accounts for\u00a0Brooks Koepka announcing\u00a0he would not be playing for LIV Golf in 2026.<\/p>\n
Immelman had previously said the 54 holes that LIV played for its first four years were never that big of an issue. LIV is moving to 72 holes for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
LIV begins its season Feb. 4 in Saudi Arabia. It has been hopeful of being part of the OWGR system because the four majors used it as part of its qualifying criteria.<\/p>\n
Several tours that are part of the OWGR are scheduled for 54 holes, such as the Big Easy developmental tour in South Africa and the MENA Tour based in Dubai.<\/p>\n
The OWGR said 54-hole tournaments \u2014 or those reduced to 54 holes because of weather \u2014 will get 75 per cent of the original field rating and points distribution. Tournaments that wind up being played over 36 holes would get 50% of the original field rating.<\/p>\n
The European Tour had a couple of tournaments reduced this year to 54 holes, such as the South African Open and Singapore Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf will end the year with no decision on whether the Official World Golf Ranking will approve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-378768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}