Former US Open champion Graeme McDowell has hit out at the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) board, claiming that LIV members are “getting hurt” and the word “official” should be stripped from the entity’s name if “they don’t take care of the players out here.”
Speaking ahead of LIV Golf’s seventh tournament in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia the Northern Irishman said: “We all agree and I think most people in the world of golf would agree that the field out here is to a certain strength now where it’s impossible to ignore the talent that’s out here.
“This guy standing in the middle of the three of us [Dustin Johnson], if his world ranking is inaccurate, then the whole system is inaccurate. Hopefully it’s inevitable, but the longer it goes on, the games that are being played, all we want is to have a fair core, if you like, to recognise exactly what it is that we are doing out here.”
The 43-year-old praised “transparent” LIV Golf in doing “everything they possibly can to be legitimate in the eyes of the OWGR” but in stark contrast, blasted the governing board’s handling of the situation and insisted: “The word “official” has to go away from OWGR if they don’t take care of the players out here.”
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The Greg Norman-fronted venture has been embroiled in an ongoing battle with the OWGR Board, which consists of PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley, and was said to be “growing impatient” at the “slow process” since it submitted its application in July.
Their application was endorsed by the Asian Tour before it entered into a strategic alliance with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Tour in the hope it would “immediately qualify” for ranking points for its Bangkok event last week. That however, was denied by OWGR chiefs on the grounds of “insufficient notice”, saying that “only after the review is complete will a decision be made on awarding points to the MENA Tour’s new “Limited Field Tournaments” [the LIV Golf Invitational Series].”
McDowell, who has been a part of the controversial…
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