Hudson Swafford explains Liv Golf’s ongoing Battle for World Ranking Points

When Liv Golf broke out on stage in 2022, he promised that those who joined would receive official world golf ranking points. The Breakaway League applied for points when it began in 2022. In October 2023, the then OWGR Peter Dawson chairman announced that the LIV application was rejected, citing concerns about the structure and format of the league, with the lack of a clear promotion and out -of -tour pipeline.

“Entirely is completely technical,” Dawson said at the time. “Liv players are good enough to be sorted. They just don’t play in a format where they can be ranked equally with the other 24 shifts and thousands of players trying to compete on them.”

In May 2024, Liv officially withdrew his request. This request was recently restored while Liv tries to secure OWGR points to his players.

Hudson Swafford, who played in Liv in 2022 and 2024, recently joined the Golf Podcast to discuss Liv Golf’s trials and tribes in his search for OWGR points.

“100 percent. Like I was too down, how could I not believe it when we entered a player meeting and they were like,” We’re attracting our request. “How, why are you just giving up? No, it’s a kind of bull,” said Swapford Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz.

Swaffford said he spoke with Dawson in the Championship Alfred Dunhill Links in 2024, and that Dawson, who is no longer chairman of the OWGR Board after he handed over to Trevor Immelman, told of the closed format of the Liv store as the difficult reason to give the ranking points.

“He said he would like to give Liv World rankings, but at the beginning-we were talking about circulation with cutting in 24. That was half of the boys at the time. He’s like, I think it’s a harsh kind. I don’t even need to see that kind of circulation. He was talking about 35 or 38 boys you are not. Outside, you have stood out. He said that if there was a real interruption and everyone was respected by those rules and you had to go to a School, then the talks would be true. The traditional golf guy, but (he loved) who has a new competition and is traveling around the world.

While Liv still does not get OWGR points, the main championships have begun to open trails for Liv players who are not already excluded in their championships. Both USA and R&A created an exception to go to the top player in the individual Liv Golf ranking which is not otherwise excluded. Masters have given special invitations to Joaquin Niemann, and the American PGA reserves the right to invite any player they want they believe they are deserving a place in the PGA Championship.

But Swaford, who said he has been suspended by PGA Tour to participate in Liv, believes players in Liv are deserving some points given the quality of players on the field. “I think if you end up in the Top 10 in Liv, then you had a really good season against a very competitive group of boys,” Swofford said. “I think they have to be given something (to enter the diplomas). And I think the diplomas are getting it now. They are not naive for it. Half the boys who played in the diplomas for the last decade are there. I think they are addressing it.

To hear more from Swaford, look at the entire episode below.

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