LIV Golf player Branden Grace has launched a passionate defence of the Saudi-backed organisation’s efforts to acquire Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) status.
The South African was one of 50 players who signed a letter to OWGR chairman Peter Dawson urging the organisation to grant LIV Golf the points, and speaking to Sky Sports News reporter Jamie Weir ahead of this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Grace justified that move by saying: “If you look at the field that’s playing you’ve got the number two in the world, who’s playing on the LIV tour. You know, those guys are… all of us, we play golf, we’ve supported all the tours in the world.”
You can watch the interview below.
Branden Grace, one of the signatories of LIV players’ letter to OWGR last week, outlined to me why he feels they merit world ranking points (1/2) pic.twitter.com/dsWFFH1Z6HSeptember 28, 2022
He also explained there is definitely a pang of regret that he, and others, may never experience a Presidents Cup again and how things have “gotten out of hand” but he hopes for some compromise (2/2) pic.twitter.com/JDU1LMtMZVSeptember 28, 2022
Earlier, Rory McIlroy said that, while he had no issue with LIV Golf being granted OWGR status, “you can’t make up your own rules”. However, Grace appeared to counter those comments, pointing out that, in his opinion, some of the criteria for gaining OWGR status is already being met.
He said: “There’s some qualification criteria that’s also being met. You know, guys winning the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit, winning the Asian Tour Order of Merit. There is criteria for that. There’s guys playing on the Asian Tour which has a chance to qualify for those events. You know, if you’re lying top three, top four, you get into the events for a certain amount of time, I’m told you have to play well on those again to qualify for the next ones.
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“Then you have the guys that obviously, you know, you need these things, and you need to get into the certain qualification criteria to be able to…
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