“We certainly believe that there’s enough that are in the top 50, and we deserve to be getting world ranking points. “We’ve hit every mark in their criteria, so for us not to get points is kind of crazy with having the top - at least I believe we have the top players in the world,” DeChambeau said. So I’m not a big fan of that.”īryson DeChambeau, who shot 69 Friday, said the decision by the rankings group was only “delaying the inevitable. “I don’t think it really was much of a response. It has 54-hole events with a 36-hole cut, offering a $75,000 purse. The MENA Tour stands for Middle East and North Africa and is a developmental tour that has been getting the bare minimum of world ranking points since 2016. LIV Golf created an alliance with the MENA Tour, which hasn’t run a tournament of its own since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Thailand invitational is the first time LIV Golf is being played outside the US since the tour’s inaugural event in early June near London. The OWGR said the MENA Tour did not give it sufficient notice and there would not be time to finish the review ahead of the Bangkok tournament and next week’s event in Saudi Arabia. The Official World Golf Ranking said in a statement Thursday that it had denied the MENA Tour’s request to immediately add the Saudi-backed series to its schedule. It is the first time LIV Golf is being played outside the US since its inaugural event in early June near London.īefore the start of play, players learned that they still won’t accrue ranking points on the LIV series. British Open champion Cameron Smith, who won the last LIV event in Chicago in mid-September, shot 72. The course was created by American designer Kyle Phillips and opened this year.ĭustin Johnson, who leads the money list with just over $12.5 million in five events, shot 70. The tournament is being played on the new Stonehill Golf Club north of downtown Bangkok. Marc Leishman and Ian Poulter were a stroke behind while Kim Sihwan, Brooks Koepka and Morgan Jediah were among those two behind in the 54-hole event. BANGKOK: Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more illustrious opponents on Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after the first round of the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok.
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