Jon Rahm will take the points, but like his bosses, he wants more.<\/p>\n
The Official World Golf Ranking announced Tuesday that it would award points to LIV Golf events, though only to the top 10 finishers each week. The winners of LIV events are projected to receive nice chunks of points, but the shares sharply decline from there while 11th place is valued the same as 57th.<\/p>\n
LIV, via statement, called the decision \u201cunprecedented,\u201d adding that the league\u2019s members \u201cdeserve a system that treats them equally.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Wednesday\u2019s first round of LIV\u2019s season opener in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Rahm echoed LIV\u2019s sentiments.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s fantastic that we\u2019re getting points,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic that we\u2019re being recognized in a way. With that said, I don\u2019t like how we\u2019re not being treated the same as every other tour. It seems like the rules that have been in place aren\u2019t really applied to us, with only 10 of us getting points, it doesn\u2019t seem fair. There are small fields out there throughout the course of the year that get full points, or full players get points, right? So, there\u2019s work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though he didn\u2019t win a tournament, Rahm finished inside the top 10 in 12 of 13 LIV events last season. His other finish was a T-11, at LIV Dallas, which wouldn\u2019t have earned him points in this new climate.<\/p>\n
Rahm is currently ranked 97th in OWGR and sits T-4, two shots off the lead, after 18 holes under the lights in Riyadh.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it\u2019s good for some people, it could cost some players to actually lose world ranking points, instead of gain them,\u201d Rahm added, \u201cbecause finishing in 11th is basically a missed cut, and we\u2019re already adding to the divisor. But I\u2019m thankful that LIV golf got their foot in the door, and there\u2019s a possibility for us to walk in the room and be recognized as a tour, as we should be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm will take the points, but like his bosses, he wants more. The Official World Golf Ranking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-449959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}