The Official World Golf Rating denied LIV Golf rating factors, in response to reviews by the Related Press and World Golf Put up.

Format considerations and restricted entry into LIV Golf occasions had been cited in a letter despatched to LIV CEO Greg Norman from OWGR president Peter Dawson. The rating’s governing board, which unanimously voted to disclaim LIV’s request for rating factors, mentioned 54-hole, no-cut occasions for 48 gamers with a give attention to workforce golf is a matter however is “able to being handled mathematically within the [ranking] system.”

The larger concern is the shortage of entry to LIV Golf. In keeping with the letter despatched to LIV as few as 4 gamers may be a part of the brand new circuit subsequent season together with three from the league’s “promotions occasion” and one from the Asian Tour Worldwide Sequence Order of Benefit. LIV additionally knowledgeable the OWGR board that 14 gamers will probably be contractually invited again for subsequent season no matter their efficiency.

Rating factors have been a objective of LIV Golf since its inception final 12 months and Norman informed gamers final 12 months that “with out LIV’s inclusion, the integrity and accuracy of the rankings themselves are severely compromised.”

In an interview with World Golf Put up, Dawson acknowledged the cut up in skilled golf between LIV and the PGA Tour has created points for the rating.

“It diminishes the rankings if gamers like DJ [Dustin Johnson] and Bryson DeChambeau are usually not included. It could additionally diminish the rating if the rating rigor had been diminished to incorporate them,” Dawson mentioned. “The necessary level is, this isn’t concerning the gamers. LIV gamers are self-evidently ok to be ranked; there isn’t any doubt about that. That is about, ought to a tour whose codecs are so totally different and whose qualification standards are so totally different, can they be ranked equitably with different excursions who conform to the OWGR norm and have extra competitors to them than maybe the closed store that’s LIV?”

Dawson additionally mentioned that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley, who’re members of the rating’s governing board, didn’t take part within the choice to incorporate LIV within the rating. He acknowledged {that a} potential settlement between the Tour, European tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, which owns 93 p.c of the breakaway circuit in response to court docket filings, may affect the rating system.

“We aren’t right here to say that OWGR standards are the one approach to play,” Dawson mentioned. “We have now to vary and be versatile and do what’s finest.”

LIV Golf is scheduled to play its penultimate occasion this week in Saudi Arabia and its workforce championship subsequent week at Doral in Miami.