Lee WestwoodTie for 34th in open championship placed her in 3,759 spots Official world golf rankings,
Now at number 930, Westwood is now ahead of his son, Sam, a mini-tour player, currently ranked 2,759th. The British served as exhibition 1 against the world ranking system.
Westwood said this week’s live golf UK event on Wednesday, “I think it proves that it makes a little joke of the system without the world ranking.”
These comments came after the league was re -implemented to submit OWGR last month. Currently it is subject to submission review.
LIV originally applied for recognition in July 2022, soon after the league was launched, but refused. Live golfers can only earn ranking points by competing in major championships and international tour events.
With a limited ability to score points through DP World Tour and other tourism, live players like Westwood have continued to drop OWGR down. Dustin JohnsonThose who spent 135 weeks at number 1, below 907th before a T23 last week, were taken back to 571st.
The current top 50 consists of only two live players: No. 16 Bryson decombo And number 21 Tierel hatan Of England.
Westwood appreciated Live’s recent second submission and believes that without OwGR’s earnings, the four major championships would have to change their processes to include more LIV players in the future.
“I think it is mainly related to the best players in the major championship, do not want this conversation, where some people are missing because we don’t get world ranking points on live,” he said.
“We either start getting world ranking points on LIV or the major championship has to modify its merit system, which they think – some of them want to do, but they seem reluctant to do something, and they have a separate qualification system for LIV players, which I do not think anyone wants. You want that all this is based on the same system.”
He was able to jump over 3,000 spots based on a tie for the 34th, in an incident Westwood spoke on the main issues with the system. John RahmIssues with OWGR join LIV in December 2023, and support a system that focuses more on the major game metrics.
“I already thought that it was flawed before I ever came, and I was outspoken about it,” he said. “So I think in the last few years, even world ranking and both data golf get a stroke ranking, and I think it makes a lot of reflects that really is playing the best because the real digits are two years ranking, you can have a poor week or a poor three weeks, and it will keep you down for a full two years.
“It’s crazy how you can actually make a little connection with the system by playing a few weeks and not playing such things a few weeks and such things. It is always going to be somewhat accurate, but not most, and I think it is going to be a better representation of the commonly received strokes that everyone is really playing.”
For now, LIV players will continue to drop Owgr down. Certainly, they can submit some points on other tourism outside the live events, but the next chief is not up to the masters until next April. And until they are included in OwGR, it will be difficult for LIV players to qualify for the four biggest tournaments every year.
Live Golf CEO Scott O’Neel said earlier this month that he hoped that the approval process could progress before the major session of 2026.
“I think there are a lot of people here that you definitely want to play in big companies. If there is a better route for us, it’s fantastic,” Honon said.
“There are a lot of people here, their current world rankings do not really reflect the type of golfer that they are, and I think everyone would like to think that everyone sitting here will agree with that statement.
“I think the sooner the world ranking may be a little more realistic, the better it would be for golf.”
