With Bryson DeChambeau Dropping to No. 11, No LIV Golf Player Is in the OWGR Top 10

With Tommy Fleetwood’s third-place finish at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, he leapfrogged Bryson DeChambeau into 10th place in the Official World Golf Ranking.

That leaves no LIV Golf players inside the OWGR top 10, despite DeChambeau winning the U.S. Open and finishing runner-up at the PGA Championship this season. Fleetwood hasn’t yet won on the PGA Tour but, of course, has played in far more qualifying events than any LIV golfer.

Bryson DeChambeau on the OWGR:

“They said ‘you need certain requirements’, we have fulfilled all those requirements, despite what everybody thinks. If you go look at their handbook, we have fulfilled every single criteria. It’s been over 2 years now. What’s going on guys?

It’s… pic.twitter.com/maspGNllzD

— Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) February 23, 2024

For most of the first two years of its existence, LIV had petitioned for OWGR points, including by joining forces with an obscure Asian tour in an effort to get accreditation. After a formal request was denied, LIV said that they would be moving on, and it appears that they have.

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman suggested that it was a personal decision to try and exclude the young league, but the OWGR insists that isn’t the case. 

 “This decision not to make them eligible is not political. It is entirely technical. LIV players are self-evidently good enough to be ranked. They’re just not playing in a format where they can be ranked equitably with the other 24 tours and thousands of players trying to compete on them,” OWGR Chairman Peter Dawson said last year after LIV’s application was denied.

In withdrawing its application in March, Norman said that the “OWGR has shown little willingness to productively work with us.”

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