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LIV golfers seek back-dated World Ranking points

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LIV golfers have written a joint letter to the head of the Official World Golf Rankings requesting points are attributed to past and future events in the Saudi-backed breakaway to ensure the "integrity" of the current system.Five of the 54-hole tournaments have already been held this year, for which a number of top names signed up, with the final three scheduled for Bangkok, Jeddah and Miami.However, an application made in July for the LIV series to be awarded world ranking points – the metric by which most players qualify for majors, World Golf Championship and other top events – remains undecided.As a result the 48 players who featured in last week's tournament in Chicago, including Open champion Cameron Smith, six-time major winner Phil Mickelson and the likes of Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, have written to OWGR chairman Peter Dawson, former chief executive of the R&A, asking for a resolution."As the athletes who are ranked, we depend on OWGR not just to qualify for the most important events, including the majors and Olympics, but to tell us where we stand among our peers," said the letter."To maintain trust, we urge you – as one of the true statesmen of sports – to act appropriately to include, on a retroactive basis, the results of LIV Golf events in OWGR’s ranking calculations."An OWGR without LIV would be incomplete and inaccurate, the equivalent of… leaving Belgium, Argentina, and England out of the FIFA rankings."Every week that passes without the inclusion of LIV athletes undermines the historical value of OWGR."We call on you to render a positive decision quickly – for the benefit of the integrity of the rankings, the game and all of us who love the sport."The established tours’ response to the LIV

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