Stu1961
The criteria was listed on the Golf Channel last night. There was a lot to unpack with the revised OWGR that took effect in August. Here's what I found. Like I said there's a lot to unpack. Here's just some of what is cited.
https://www.globalgolfpost.com/featured/revamped-owgr-a-mess-for-liv-to-untangle/
"LIV does not meet several criteria that the OWGR lists as mandatory to be considered, and all of those criteria would have to be in place for at least one year prior to the application being accepted.
The OWGR has long asked that tours have a 36-hole cut, play 72 holes (developmental tours are exempt from this rule), carry an average field size north of 75, and stage qualifying to gain entry into both the tour and each individual tournament.
Itās expected that LIV will try to leverage the Asian Tour, the already OWGR-sanctioned tour which they own, to meet some of the criteria. They could also try to use relegation as proof of a qualifying system. However, these could both pose a problem because the Asian Tour is sponsoring LIV in their OWGR application, which is the opposite of how normal professional golf feeder systems work.
The OWGR has long been based on two-year windows with significant weight being added to recent results. Without accruing points, LIV players are set to drop in the rankings. And it wonāt take much time at all. Projections show that itās possible no LIV players could be in the top 50 by the end of this year. There could easily be none in the top 100 by the end of 2023. The majors could take no course of action and watch the majority of LIV golfers fall by the wayside. At the same time, some majors like the Masters could tweak their qualification system to add more non-LIV players to the field while trying to stop LIV defectors.
And then there is the revamped system itself. The new format will gradually show its effects each week as the old system slowly filters out, a process that will take two years. Itās impossible to know exactly what will happen moving forward, but it seems heavily in favor of the PGA Tour and heavily against LIV.
The OWGR is now the end result of a metric called the Strokes Gained World Ranking. The SGWR is a measure of a playerās score against the relative difficulty of how everyone else in the event fared each day. The concept is similar to strokes gained statistics used by the PGA Tour, and strokes gained inventor Mark Broadie is a part of creating this new metric. The key difference is that the SGWR is adjusted for strength of field across all tours, so players get more points for playing against other top players. These SGWRās are combined at each tournament and that becomes the strength of field points being divided that week. There are some early issues with the SGWR system that will likely be sorted through naturally over time."