Greg Norman has labelled the official world golf rankings as “laughable” pointing to a few different methods which might have as many as 10 gamers of his LIV stars on the earth’s high 50.
A failed bid to have LIV occasions, that are solely 54 holes, with restricted fields and no cuts, was rejected final 12 months and gamers on the LIV tour, together with Aussie star Cam Smith, have skilled important slides.
Smith has fallen to 44, placing his Olympic dream in severe jeopardy, with solely three present LIV gamers, together with reigning Masters and PGA champions John Rahm and Brooks Koepka, inside the highest 50 on the official world golf rankings.
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However three of these 5, Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Adrian Meronk, solely simply joined the Saudi-backed tour and haven’t but felt the complete rankings repercussions of their transfer.
Norman and different main gamers together with Smith, have been railing towards the validity of the OWGR system, which is used for entries for the 4 main championships in addition to Olympic qualification.
Taking to social media, Norman highlighted the variations between the opposite rankings methods and the OWGR which he labelled referred to as out given LIV would have “solely two gamers within the to 50 OWGR when you exclude current signees”.
“LIV would have 2 gamers
All of them counsel different rankings methods are extra correct, and Norman is an advocate of The Common Golf Rankings as a greater information, whereas additionally suggesting Sports activities Illustrated’s personal system can also be a extra correct reflection because it weights performances throughout all excursions.
On the TUGR present listing, there are 10 LIV gamers within the high 50, together with Talor Gooch, who received thrice in 2023, beating fields together with a number of main champions, however is an unfathomable 427 on the OWGR listing.
Even Dustin Johnson, who took out the final LIV occasion in Las Vegas and is a Masters and US Open winner, is 238 on the OWGR listing.
Earlier than the Vegas occasion, Smith referred to as out the “drawback” he confronted in his bid to get to the Paris Olympics, realizing the three majors earlier than the qualification deadline are his solely likelihood to be one of many top-two ranked Australians.
“It’s a little bit of an obstacle in comparison with the opposite Aussie guys,” Smith stated.
“However they’ve already set standards for that and I’m not positive they’ll change it to go well with me. We’ll see what occurs, however I desperately need to be in Paris.”
Fellow Aussie Min Woo Lee is now the second-highest ranked Australian at 42 after Smith’s slide, placing him prime place to go to Paris.
Jason Day is quantity 19, however given no indication of his Olympic ambition which veteran Adam Scott, who’s ranked 48, has declared he wouldn’t be taking a spot if he certified.