Berry Henson

Are LIV Golf’s Future OWGR Points at Risk? – A thread 🧵 With the reorganization of LIV Golf, coupled with the loss of the Asian Tour pathway to LIV, we’ve been seeing the above question increasingly asked (including ME doing the asking) The short answer first: YES, OWGR points are at risk… at least from what we know about OWGR guidelines and what we think we know about the makeup of LIV 2.0 so far. That doesn’t necessarily mean LIV is certain to lose OWGR next year, but it’s a real possibility. Here’s the short list of reasons why. • All new tours are on a 3-year probation and LIV got partial points because they are still out of full compliance on the size of field, all events being no-cut, established but inadequate and questionable practices in merit-based relegation/replacement. • OWGR requires a minimum of 10 counting events on the tour’s OoM to qualify for rankings. LIV may or may not meet that in 2027 • OWGR requires member tours to maintain a “Pathway system” of relegation/promotion with another tour. Losing the Asian Tour pathway, put’s LIV’s compliance at serious risk. That’s the cliff notes version, so if that’s all you need to know… then no need to read further. But there’s a lot of nuances that establish the above. So, what follows is some history and documentation of how we got here, and details of relevant OWGR Tour eligibility criteria as it relates to LIV … some of it gets a bit deep in the weeds… so please heed this NERD ALERT on what follows…