“There’s a procedure they’ll have to follow” – Hideki Matsuyama in favour of ranking points for LIV golfers
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The Saudi-backed circuit’s application for accreditation has not been expedited in any way by the Official World Golf Ranking’s Board of Directors. This has led to frustration among the LIV bosses and the golfers associated with the rebel league.
A number of golfers have come out and said they have every right to be included in the rankings points system and it’s time that golfing world accepts the controversial league.
The latest golfer to join his view is former Masters champion, Hideki Matsuyama. The Japanese golfer, who currently plays for the Tour, was of the view that the players who shifted from PGA to play for LIV should be entitled to get ranking points.
Hideki Matsuyama is the first golfer from Japan to win a Major golf event
“I think they should be able to,” he said. “However, there’s a procedure they’ll have to follow,” Hideki Matsuyama stated his views at the Zozo Championship, which starts on Thursday.
When asked about whether he will swap his loyalties in the future and join the cash-rich league – the 30-year-old said that he is staying with Tour and that’s the right thing for him.
“I’m a member of the PGA Tour,” Matsuyama added. “The players who left did so because they thought it was the right thing to do. So I can’t say anything about them.”
At Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, the same venue as last year’s Zozo Championship, Matsuyama won by five strokes over Brendan Steele and in the process, he also became the first Japanese to win a men’s Major golf event.
“The energy that the fans provide really helps out, it helps my game. “But on the other hand, there’s the pressure that goes along with it,” the Japanese golfer added.
Coming back to the debate of world ranking points, the 25-year-old Norwegian golfer Viktor Hovland insisted that golfers who swapped PGA for LIV shouldn’t get an automatic exemption for ranking points.
“If you want to get world ranking points, you obviously have to follow the process,” the Norwegian said. “And I think they’re obviously making an effort to get those points, but I don’t think it’s right to give them an exemption to just get points overnight. They obviously have to follow the process, whatever the process might be.”
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