Main championships are the place legends are made within the sport of golf. Each participant and fan alike is aware of and understands this. The game has grown accustomed to seeing one of the best gamers on the planet battling it out annually on the 4 majors.

That’s not the case.

Gamers who jumped ship from the PGA Tour for the upstart LIV Golf league have precipitously fallen down the Official World Golf Rankings. That’s as a result of LIV Golf occasions don’t award gamers any factors.

One such participant is the 2010 Open Championship winner, Louis Oosthuizen, who has fallen to 390th within the OWGR.

“It’s not a world rating system,” Oosthuizen informed bunkered.co.uk. “You may say it’s extra PGA Tour rating than the rest.

“It’s irritating for everybody since you used to measure your self on that and the place you might be. It’s not simply being a LIV participant. It’s being a South African participant on the Sunshine Tour, being in Asia, everywhere in the world, you’re not getting rankings now until you’re enjoying PGA Tour.”

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Lots of the finest gamers on the planet do in actual fact play on the PGA Tour. Oosthuizen acknowledges that, however the semantics of the OWGR are clearly off.

“They do have the highest gamers however it’s undoubtedly not a good system in the mean time as a result of you may’t inform me there’s 10 or 15 guys on LIV that aren’t within the prime 50 or prime 40. It’s obtained to be checked out.”

Somebody should let Oosthuizen know that it’s being checked out. The truth is, OWGR chairman Peter Dawson not too long ago introduced they’re near coming to a call on LIV Golf’s software for factors.

Oosthuizen is enjoying within the DP World Tour’s Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship at St. Andrews. Usually, as a member of LIV Golf, he wouldn’t have been allowed within the occasion; nonetheless, he obtained a sponsor’s invite.

The South African is tied for fortieth at 4-under because the third spherical of play Saturday was suspended as a result of climate.