Graeme McDowell has described the Official World Golf Rankings as 'inaccurate and irrelevant' amid LIV Golf 's latest snubbing. Since the Saudi-backed series kicked off in June, it has been unable to acquire OWGR points leading to a number of the game's big names tumbling down the world rankings.
In a bid to rectify this, the Saudi-backed circuit announced a 'strategic alliance' with the MENA Tour, co-sanctioning last week's event in Bangkok and this week's in Jeddah. The hope was to finally gain ranking points starting with these two tournaments, thanks to MENA being an OWGR recognised circuit.
Their co-sanction plan failed though, as the ranking system confirmed ahead of last week's event in Thailand that MENA's application provided 'insufficient notice' to investigate the new 'Limited Field Tournaments' - better known as LIV Golf events.
