“Laughable”: Jon Rahm hits out at OWGR changes

The Spaniard cited the lack of points on offer for this week’s event, which offers fewer points than the RSM Classic on the PGA Tour.

This week’s DP World Tour event will award 21.8 points to the winner, while the RSM Classic champion will receive 37 points.

Big favorite and top ranked in the RSM field is out. SoF drops to 37p to the winner.

RSM has no top 25 players left in the field, while #DPWTC has no less than 7! Yet the RSM winner will get 37p while the Dubai winner will get only 21.8p. #OWGR 🤨

— Nosferatu (@VC606) November 15, 2022

“I’m going to be as blunt as I can,” he said. 

“I think the OWGR right now is laughable. Laughable. Laughable. 

“The fact that the RSM doesn’t have any of the top 20 in the world and has more points than this event where we have seven of the top 20 is laughable.”

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The world No.5 continued, sayingthe system devalues the best players in the world.

“I understand what they are trying to do with the depth of field but having the best players in the world automatically makes the tournament better,” he said. 

“I don’t care what their system says. I…