After the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Bryson DeChambeau has suffered a setback.
Bryson DeChambeau’s removal from the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) is yet another major setback for LIV Golf.
There are currently no LIV Golf league players in the top 10 as a result of the American’s decline in the rankings.
Tommy Fleetwood of England passed DeChambeau in the rankings following his third-place result at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, which was won by Tyrrell Hatton of LIV.
Given their ongoing dispute with OWGR regarding the methodology they employ to determine their rankings and the competitions they recognize, LIV Golf executives are unlikely to be overly surprised by the reorganization.
LIV Golf has made multiple attempts to get their breakaway competition recognized by the OWGR board, which would have allowed their players to place higher in the top ten. However, the board has rejected their requests. Last October was the most recent rejection.
“This decision not to make them eligible is not political,” stated Peter Dawson, the head of OWGR, in response to a previous question concerning the rationale behind rejecting LIV Golf’s proposals. It’s completely technical.
It goes without saying that LIV players are competent enough to be ranked. Simply put, they’re not competing in a way that allows them to be ranked fairly among the thousands of players attempting to compete on the other 24 tours.
In a forceful statement of their own, LIV Golf questioned how OWGR’s goal is to rank the world’s top golfers while ignoring those who are playing at the highest level in a breakaway league.
Sergio Garcia recently acknowledged that he no longer thinks it is worth competing for OWGR points while he and others compete elsewhere, following LIV Golf’s decision earlier this year to stop pushing for ranking recognition.
“To be completely honest, I don’t think world ranking points are worth it anymore for us,” the 44-year-old told GolfMagic. The majority of us wouldn’t really benefit even if we received world ranking points given the current rankings, which have me in 390th place.
“We looked at it, and you would probably need to win about 10 of the 14 tournaments on LIV Golf to be able to stay in the top 50 in the world.”
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