“Promises were made!” LIV Golf Twitter fans react as ranking points denied at Bangkok and Jeddah

There will be no world ranking points for LIV Golf players at upcoming events in Bangkok and Jeddah, according to the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).

There has been a long going debate for months now that whether the LIV Golf players are eligible for World Ranking Points but now it’s crystal clear that they won’t be eligible for the same.

The OWGR issued a statement on Thursday, announcing that LIV Golf members would not receive OWGR points for the upcoming Championships in Bangkok and Jeddah as the controversial league is set to make its debut in Asia.

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Changes to the MENA Tour because of LIV Golf now in consideration by the OWGR

“A review of the changes to the MENA Tour is now underway by the OWGR,” the release said. “Notice of these changes given by the MENA Tour is insufficient to allow OWGR to conduct the customary necessary review ahead of the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok (Oct. 7-9) and LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah (Oct. 14-16).”

“Only after the review is complete will a decision be made on awarding points to the MENA Tour’s new “Limited Field Tournaments”, defined by the MENA Tour in its Regulations as “any MENA Tour-approved tournament, which comprises of a player field of less than 80 players.”

LIV Golf members will not earn Official World Golf Ranking points in Bangkok or Jeddah, OWGR reviewing changes to MENA Tour https://t.co/Ws8BonFEpo

— Golfweek (@golfweek) October 7, 2022

Source familiar with the workings of the OWGR panel told @GolfDigest it’s unlikely OWGR will award points for this week’s LIV event, saying that an alliance with another tour doesn’t initiate automatic inclusion of LIV Golf in the World Ranking,

— Joel Beall (@JoelMBeall) October 5, 2022

Absolutely delighted the Liv Golf World ranking points idea has been rejected. Money grabbing wankers.

— CIAN O RIORDAN???????????????? (@CoriordanO) October 6, 2022

Not sure what your relationship is to World Golf but you need to educate yourself on how the ranking points work. I really don’t get this feud but the rules were in place long before LIV. They have smaller fields, no cut, and only 3 rounds. 1st meet the criteria, then campaign.

— TheSofaRef!!! (@SiWhitt) October 7, 2022

Duh????‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/4eCrwkhQcd

— One4theDitch (@One4theD) October 7, 2022

Failure to award world-ranking points at the Saudi-backed #LIVGolf event in Thailand starting on Friday renders the rankings "inaccurate", @theMENATour said on Friday. pic.twitter.com/g28a0MJGzp

— TRENDS (@mena_trends) October 7, 2022

https://twitter.com/DB__75/status/1578245556421685249?s=20

Stock market diminishing as No ranking points at upcoming LIV Golf events #wstbot #stonks

— Wall St. Bots ??? (@wstbots) October 7, 2022

Poor Greg? pic.twitter.com/IiYS4XMwmE

— Falcon Golf Arabia (@Falcon_Golf) October 7, 2022

LIV is a significantly better test of golf than at least 21 of the 23 tours be given world ranking points. How do you think LIV would fair in a competition against the Nordic tour, the big East tour, the Alps tour, the Thailand tour, the professional golf tour of India?

— Bugeater (@Ahamo72) October 6, 2022

The Saudi-backed league is not currently recognized by OWGR as they have been raising eyebrows since they made their inception in the world of golf. With no ranking points in contention – it means that players are at risk of falling off the leaderboard and missing out on entry into the Major.

As of now, Tour has suspended all the golfers who have chosen to swap PGA for a money-rich league. There has been a number of players who have left the PGA Tour to join the LIV, including former World No.1s Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson.

However, the LIV golf CEO Greg Norman and the golfers have insisted that the rebel league should be considered for OWGR points. The LIV officials even wrote to the OWGR Chairman asking that the event be retroactively awarded points.

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