LIV golfers will continue to not earn Official World Golf Ranking points, OWGR board rules

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The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) board rejected LIV Golf's application to get ranking points on Tuesday.

The Saudi-backed league asked last year to be included in the ranking system, but the OWGR ruled that it could not fairly measure LIV against the other tours — 24 of them — that the board has in the system.

The board cited lack of turnover in the league as a role in its decision. LIV also plays team golf and 54-hole events, as opposed to 72 holes in mostly individual play in the PGA.

"We are not at war with them," Peter Dawson, chairman of the OWGR board, said of LIV Golf. "This decision not to make them eligible is not political. It is entirely technical. LIV players are self-evidently good enough to be ranked. They're just not playing in a format where they can be ranked equitably with the other 24 tours and thousands of players trying to compete on them."

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From center left: Former President Donald Trump; his excellency Yasir Al Rumayyan; Greg Norman, CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf; and Majed Al Sorour, CEO of Saudi Golf Federation, are seen on stage during day three of the LIV Golf Invitational - Bedminster at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, New Jersey, on July 31, 2022. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via Getty Images)

However, in a statement of their own, LIV says the OWGR is failing to make good on their main goal.

"OWGR’s sole objective is to rank the best players across the globe. Today’s communication makes clear that it can no longer deliver on that objective," LIV said Tuesday.

"Players have historically remained subject to a single world ranking to