DeChambeau wants OWGR to offer LIV points solution

If the leaders of the Official World Golf Ranking won't allow LIV Golf players to earn ranking points to qualify for major championships, 2020 US Open champ Bryson DeChambeau is urging officials to come up with an alternative.

"We would love to find another way to be integrated into the major championship system since I think we have some of the best players in the world," DeChambeauu said Wednesday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he's playing in LIV's final regular-season tournament of the year.

What would he suggest?

"Top 12 on the list, the money list at the end of the year, or the points list at the end of the year would be, I think, obvious for the major championships to host the best players in the world at those four events each year," said DeChambeau, who reached his career-high world ranking of fourth in May 2021.

He now is ranked 132nd.

DeChambeau was entered in all four majors in 2023. He missed the cut at the Masters Tournament, tied for fourth at the PGA Championship, tied for 20th at the US Open and tied for 60th at The Open.

He still had an exemption as a previous major winner to play in the majors. World rankings are the alternate main source of determining who can play in the majors, but with LIV players unable to earn points toward a ranking, those without exemptions will be left out.

DeChambeau, 30, called the OWGR decision "sad" but didn't seem to have regrets about leaving the PGA Tour last year for the fledgling Saudi Arabia-funded LIV.

"This is an amazing opportunity for every one of us," he said of playing on the big-money LIV circuit, funded with Saudi Arabian cash.

"I think we've told that narrative quite a bit, and we want to continue to change and grow the game in places like Saudi Arabia, like