LIV Golfing partners with tour in hopes to safe world rankings for players

LIV Golf has fashioned an alliance with the MENA Tour in an try for its golfers to obtain Formal World Golfing Position factors.

The MENA Tour was acknowledged by the OWGR board in Might 2016, but it has been mostly inactive in the latest several years because of to the COVID-19 pandemic — the event did not keep any situations in 2021, and just 5 in 2020.

Workforce Captain Dustin Johnson of 4 Aces GC and teammates Pat Perez, Patrick Reed, and Talor Gooch pose with Greg Norman, CEO and commissioner of LIV Golfing, following successful the staff title for the duration of Working day Three of the LIV Golf Invitational - Chicago at Abundant Harvest Farms on Sept. 18, 2022 in Sugar Grove, Illinois. (Joe Scarnici/LIV Golfing by means of Getty Illustrations or photos)

The tour was founded in 2011 by the Dubai-dependent Shaikh Maktoum Golfing Basis with its tournaments held in North Africa and the Center East.

"This is a very remarkable day for the MENA Tour and our players," MENA Tour commissioner David Spencer explained in a assertion. "By this alliance, our players will now have improved enjoying chances and more robust pathways. This is good news for the long term of a lot of young players on our Tour."

Spencer additional that the "alliance will increase the MENA Tour's enhancement applications."

Previous thirty day period, 50 golfers signed a letter to the chairman of the OWGR requesting their outcomes be provided in the rankings.

Team Captain Cameron Smith of Punch GC poses with Greg Norman, CEO and commissioner of LIV Golfing, after winning the specific title during Day Three of the LIV Golf Invitational - Chicago at Prosperous Harvest Farms on Sept. 18, 2022 in Sugar Grove, Illinois. (Alex Goodlett/LIV Golfing by means of Getty Pictures)

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"An OWGR with no LIV would be incomplete and inaccurate, the equal of leaving the Significant 10 or the SEC out of the U.S. university football position, or leaving Belgium, Argentina and England out of the FIFA rankings," the letter said.

The players claimed that they should really obtain factors as their levels of competition is at the very least equal to the PGA Tour's, and they sense that this partnership is a action in the course they wish.

"We are having this mutually beneficial motion to guidance the recreation at the developmental amount and because of the relevance and fairness of LIV golfers qualifying for OWGR details," LIV Golf president and COO Atul Khosla stated in a statement. "We are happy to build pathways that give extra options for younger gamers, even though also supplying lovers rankings that contain all the world's very best golfers."

LIV CEO and commissioner Greg Norman watches perform on the 3rd hole through the remaining spherical of the LIV Golfing Invitational Series Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois.   (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Pictures)

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The partnership, according to MENA, will "straight away qualify LIV Golfing for OWGR points, starting off with the LIV Golf Thailand function at Stonehill this week."