Bryson DeChambeau hits back at LIV Golf critics over world ranking snub

LIV Golf’s wait for Official World Golf Ranking recognition is continuing, but Bryson DeChambeau believes the league have done everything they can to meet the required criteria

Bryson DeChambeau has claimed LIV Golf have met all of the Official World Golf Ranking’s (OWGR) criteria, despite their ongoing wait for world ranking points.

LIV have combat their way to the best of the proficient golf pyramid nearby the PGA Tour over the past two a long time, but the one wrinkle that remains in their shield is their need of OWGR acknowledgment. In the midst of their positioning reprimand, LIV occasions have been constrained to go ahead for more than two seasons without OWGR focuses on offer.

This has come about in a few of the league’s greatest names drooping down the world rankings, counting previous world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, who presently finds himself positioned 238th on the list.

Their most recent offered for positioning focuses came final October, but this was rejected by those in charge of OWGR. The positioning framework cited LIV’s 54-hole, no cut competition arrange, as well as their advancement and assignment framework among the key reasonings behind their hold up for focuses.

One the circuit’s greatest names, DeChambeau, is another star who has seen his spot within the rankings tumble, and in spite of the dismissal final Harvest time, he accepts LIV tick each box displayed by the OWGR. “They said ‘you require certain requirements’, we have satisfied all those prerequisites, in spite of what everyone considers,” he told LIV’s Fairway To Heaven podcast.

“On the off chance that you go see at their handbook, we have satisfied each single criteria. It’s been over two a long time presently. What’s going on folks? It’s a bit baffling, but nothing ready to do at this minute. In case we grandstand ourselves within the major championships there’s no way they can keep us out.

“We fair need to play well within the majors and once we do, they have no choice.” The major championships is the greatest talking point encompassing the positioning adventure, with the four lead occasions basing the larger part of their areas off the best entertainers on the OWGR list.

DeChambeau is one of the fortunate ones, having earned a five-year exception to the Experts, Open and PGA Championship on the back of his 2020 U.S. Open win, and a 10-year spot within the field of that occasion. Somewhere else in spite of the fact that a few of LIV’s other stars have been cast aside from the major areas.

Previous top-20 player Joaquin Niemann has voiced his dissatisfactions in later months over his need of passages into the top-four occasions of the season on the back of his move to LIV. An noteworthy begin to the 2024 season which has seen him win twice in any case has demonstrated sufficient to gain a special exclusion invite to this April’s Aces.