Justin Thomas on LIV's rankings gripe: 'It's their fault'

Justin Thomas understands why LIV Golf players are fighting hard to receive world rankings points for their events, but he strongly disagrees with their stance.

LIV sent a letter to the chairman of the Official World Golf Ranking organization urging that players receive points for playing in the breakaway tour's events. The series even wants points to be retroactive to include the five events already staged.

"I don't understand," Thomas said when asked about LIV's petition at the Presidents Cup on Tuesday. "It's very obvious and written right there in front of them. They just naturally want what's best for them, just like the decision they made to go there."

Thomas is currently ranked seventh in the world and has twice reached No. 1. The top-ranked LIV player is No. 3 Cameron Smith, who didn't leave for the Saudi-backed league until after the Tour Championship. Meanwhile, Dustin Johnson has slid all the way to No. 23 and Brooks Koepka is 29th.

If LIV does not convince the OWGR board to include the series, its players will continue to plummet down the World Ranking, making it increasingly difficult to qualify for major championships.

"Hey, if I was doing the same situation, I would want it, but that doesn't necessarily make it right," Thomas said. "The governing bodies have created a system for a reason, and that's to try to create the best system possible to determine the best players in the world.

"Is it going to be skewed because some of the top players aren't going to be in there? Yes. But that's their own fault for making the decision they made, and they knew very, very well going into it there's a good chance they won't have World Ranking points, and they took that risk.

"In my opinion, that's their own fault."

Billy