Cameron Smith called the Official World Golf Ranking system «almost obsolete» after its governing body voted unanimously not to award world-ranking points to golfers for their finishes in LIV Golf League tournaments.
Smith was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world after winning The Open at St. Andrews in July 2022. He left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf about two months later and has fallen to 15th in the world. «I think it is almost obsolete now,» Smith told reporters Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, where LIV Golf will play its final regular-season event at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club starting Friday. «We've got some guys out here who are playing some of the best golf in the world and they're outside the top 100, 200 in the world.
It's pretty ridiculous.» Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson, who was LIV Golf's inaugural individual champion in 2022, also questioned whether the OWGR is still the best way to rank players. «I feel like you can't really use the world ranking system anymore,» Johnson said. «That's my take on it.
Hard to use the world ranking system if you're excluding 48 guys that are good players. The rankings are skewed. It doesn't really affect me as it does some of the other guys.