A ruling that will see only the top 10 finishers at LIV Golf events awarded world ranking points “doesn’t seem fair”, says two-time major winner Jon Rahm.<\/p>\n
The Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) board revealed on Tuesday its decision to award LIV players points for the first time.<\/p>\n
But the limit means it will be different from all 24 other men’s professional golf tours that are part of the OWGR where everyone making the cut earn points.<\/p>\n
The OWGR board said it was restricting points to the top 10 finishers in the Saudi Arabia-funded circuit because it “recognises there are a number of areas where LIV Golf does not meet the eligibility standards set out by OWGR”.<\/p>\n
Speaking at LIV Golf’s season opener in Riyadh, Rahm said it was “fantastic that we’re being recognised in a way” but he added: “With that said, I don’t like how we’re not being treated the same as every other tour.<\/p>\n
“It seems like the rules that have been in place don’t really apply to us, with only 10 of us getting points.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t seem fair. The small fields out there throughout the course of the year, their players get full points.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ruling that will see only the top 10 finishers at LIV Golf events awarded world ranking points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}