Tiger Woods finds himself at epicentre of latest LIV Golf row: “Utter absurdity”

Tiger Woods finds himself at the epicenter of the latest LIV golf controversy: ‘Absolute absurdity’ Tiger Woods ranks in Official World Golf Ranking after 72 holes of first competition in seven months He rose significantly in rank.
Woods, 47, finished 18th out of 20 participants at his own PGA Tour event in the Bahamas over the weekend.
He was sitting at a career low of 1,328th in the rankings, but his success in Albany has now pushed him up a whopping 430 spots.
All Hero World Challenge participants attended at the invitation of the 15-time Major His Champion.
Scotty Scheffler emerges as champion, marking his first win since The Players in 2023.
Related: Controversy over the validity of the OWGR after an American player won 30 world ranking points in what was considered an exhibition event of golf’s “stupid season” A new discussion has emerged.
To explain the “unfairness”, golf fans pointed to the fact that LIV Golf’s Joaquin Niemann, who won the Australian Open, scored only 14.
8 points.
Another of his LIV players, Dean Burmester, won the DP World Tour co-sanctioned South African Open, where he only scored 12.
5 points.
Also, like Tiger, Will Zalatoris, who was playing competitive golf for the first time since injuring his lower back at the 47th Masters, scored more points than Alex Fitzpatrick, who finished last in Woods’ tournament.
It was also pointed out that the British achieved T-8.
Australian Open.
Fitzpatrick had to make the cut, firing rounds of 68-66-66-74 to earn 1.
8 ranking points.
Rusty Zalatoris posted rounds of 81-68-79-71, earning him 2.
1 ranking points.
“Just another example of the absurdity of the system,” one LIV fan wrote on his LIV Golf officially denied his OWGR certification application on October 10th.
The governing body rejected the rival league’s application due to concerns about the format of the circuit.
OWGR Chairman Peter Dawson said the 54-hole, 48-player, no-cut event was problematic in addition to limited membership access for players.
“Simply put, the Executive Committee believes that allowing the Tour to operate in such a largely private manner will benefit the thousands of people who strive every day to participate in the OWGR qualifying tournaments.
” We do not believe this is fair to the players,” Dawson wrote in his letter to Greg.
LIV Norman and Chief Operating Officer He is Gary Davidson’s opinion.