Is OWGR a valid representation of pro talent? | Golf Today | Golf Channel

With LIV pulling out from consideration for the Official World Golf Rankings, Todd Lewis offers reactions from PGA Tour players on competition dynamics in pro golf. #GolfChannel #GolfToday #OWGR

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[NilsSav]

It should be called the lets keep the monopoly going golf rankings

[atalentlessdude]

What's funny and nobody is talking about it is that I think LIV Golf's shotgun start is actually insanely more fair of a thing for golfing conditions, it takes away those unfair weather conditions where the golfers who go out early and who go out later in the day have basically 2 different golf courses to play due to weather.

[robertdemaranville]

If you guys would get some guts and tell the truth, it may help. You all know this is BS. Golf fans needs to get younger. Liv is trying to make this happen plus take top players around the world. If the corrupt golf media would call out this BA ranking system, it would help pressure the 5/6 individuals that are in charge of the OWGR to make some changes. 6 guys are in charge of world golf? This is absurd!!

[adrianbelcourt]

Hello!!! PGA MONOPOLY behaving as a MONOPOLY…

OWGR ARE A JOKE …

Since when is Nic Dunlap a better player than Bryson Dechambeau???

Eventually absolute power corrupts absolutely

[dereckguilfoyle]

An Asian tour player would have to win 20 straight tournaments to break into the top 100, they play 72 hole cut tournaments
. The system is completely wrong

[DonB-ncxk]

LIV can't get ranked because they hold no cut tournaments. Aren't elevated events no cut ?

[Thes]

72 holes vs 54 holes is irrelevant. Wyndham Clark received full points at the 54 hole Pebble Beach. The only important factor is strength of field and finishing position. LIV has only 24 protected spots each year and several openings each tournament. This can be improved. PGA Tour has 120 protected spot each year and the elevated events has very little turnover and this is where high points are awarded. Points are awarded to the elevated events, the WGCs and Tiger’s Hero tournaments to players who finish last. How is that justified?

[tonyk]

The OWGR is a mostly useless world golf ranking mechanism at this point.
As such, if the four majors were smart, they should mostly just ignore the OWGR and simply modify or create their own admission criteria to specifically allow for inviting a capped number of top LIV Golf players (who are not already past major champions) to their annual major tournaments.
The four majors should not care in the least what the PGA or OWGR think or want, and should be solely focused on maintaining the integrity and quality of their own annual championship events, so that all the very best players in the world are given fair opportunity to participate and get showcased on their global stage.
This is something the organizers of the four majors would be wise to address now, and immediately, without any further delay.
Failure to do so will undoubtedly lead to their major annual tournaments failing over time, in the eyes of both fans, viewers, and players alike.

[kylewilson]

What this proves is that, even though OWGR has been what we’ve gone off of before LIV was ever a thing, some of the OWGR rule settings are outdated with where golf is at today. I agree that LIV should have done more, but at the same time OWGR and others included like PGA, DPWT etc. should have worked to make something work.

[lauriemorgan]

FINALLY Golf Channel agrees the OWGR is not working and needs independent data to rank ALL players. OWGR will change if enough pressure from pro PGA media .

[wbwright]

is the OWGR broken? Yes. should LIV golfers be getting more ranking points which reflect the talent over there? Yes. Is it fair that some golfers can't be in all the tournaments they wish to? Yes. it will be solved when the merger happens.

[wgsmit]

your daily report from the PGA network has been delivered

[nomorenonsense]

Worst case scenario LIV should have their own points system and say the top 5 or 6 players get to play in the majors. Liv now has better players and not having some of them in the majors is ridiculous. Its time for the golf world to wake up and realize that Liv is here to stay and needs to be respected. Thank goodness some guys have exemptions into the majors or the fields would be weak.

[lyndelf]

Everyone, including the players, knows that the OWGR rankings are not representative of the best players in the world! Get over it PGA!

[xslashx]

I can't wait until OWGR gets completely left behind by the Golf world and becomes completely obsolete. They'll have no one to blame but themselves.

[kennydowning]

It is not the job of the tours/matkets to conform to the OWGR. It is the job of the OWGR to figure out how to fairly determine an objective rank for the worlds best active professional golfers. However, if the majors chose to select players using using other criteria it wouldn't matter. Example, take the top X from each of the primay tours (could be different # from each), top X OWGR, top X money winners, and logical exceptions.

Like they mentioned Data Golf seems to have a good claim to being a fair accurate representation of rankings at this time, maybe switch to using them.

[laceyunderall]

The OWGR has zero credibility without including the LIV players. Anyone can see that.

[brannyxx]

Mexico tour was approved last year as a 54 hole tour season

[jsiemering]

OWGR could penalize LIV golf for their no cut limited field if you were serious. Only give LIV 50% of what the field should get and only the top 24 players getting OWGR points. Problem solved.

[albertsneed]

Well you can really tell that nbc is a mainstream platform just by watching this