![]() The way rankings are currently determined is that each player “contributes performance points as determined by the player’s individual Strokes Gained World Rating.” Unfortunately for LIV, a big part of their concept is to have teams. However, importantly, TEAM events are not. Reading from the OWGR website, major championships, World Golf Championships, the Olympic Golf Competition and the World Cup of Golf are all eligible. “They just don’t meet many of the criteria.” There’s nothing political about it,” Shedlowski added. They only want the people they have selected. The OWGR requires a Q-School, not just once or twice, but every year. They have hand-picked their players with promises we don’t know about, except that it’s a ton of money. The OWGR requires Monday qualifiers, Shedlowski says. Or at least the ones people have heard about in the past. And after what round? First, or second? If they are playing to fans or the media, they need all their golfers available. What would they cut to, 24 players? That’s fairly ridiculous. The OWGR asks tournaments to have a cut after 36 holes. Maybe they don’t want the next 30 they could get. So why not hire another 30 players? Maybe they can’t get them. So, to get to an average of 78, they would have to increase the size of their fields. The two-year time frame is driving LIV crazy because every week their players fall farther in the OWGR.Īccording to Shedlowski, another requirement is to have an average of 78 players participating. (Well, they all wanted the money, and nobody blames them for that.) These are, mostly, seriously experienced players with a handful of newbies who wanted the money. Or that their events are developmental events. There’s no way that players like Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau and the majority of LIV golfers are considered developmental players. ![]() Shedlowski said the OWGR will award points for 54-hole events, but only at “the developmental tour level, which is below the Challenge Tour or the Korn Ferry Tour.” For some reason, LIV thinks it should be exempt from doing what others do to get points.ĭave Shedlowski, appearing on The Golf Show 2.0, on si.com in late August, said that it was clear that LIV “had six or seven serious shortcomings” when it comes to getting world ranking points.įirst, he noted, LIV doesn’t play 72-hole events. ![]() It’s the only way points can be equitably distributed. Tournaments and tours all over the world all have the same requirements to get points because that’s the only way to value players on different tours, to measure apples and apples. Wanting points for LIV events doesn’t make it happen. That would be a bit scary, but it’s the tour they picked. Or he and others are being asked to stand in front of a camera and say things that they know aren’t true. It’s either that or else he hasn’t looked for correct information. But he has left his logical side of the brain when he’s talking about LIV and Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR). You have to be to major in physics which is founded on higher-level mathematics that includes imaginary numbers and equations that are half in Greek letters. ![]() Physics major Bryson DeChambeau is supposedly a smart guy. By Kathlene Bissell 2 weeks ago Follow Tweet ![]()
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