Greg Norman has accused the PGA Tour of “deafening hypocrisy” and demanded that commissioner Jay Monahan recused himself from the decision whether to grant world ranking points to the Saudi rebel circuit.
Norman, the chief executive of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, revealed that the board of the Official World Golf Rankings would receive LIV’s formal application by Monday evening and insisted that it should be rubber-stamped.
The issue is seen as a key battlefield in the fight between LIV and the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour – formerly the European Tour – with the access to ranking points crucial for the rebel players’ hopes of appearing in future majors.
Here at the US Open, Mike Whan, the executive director of the US Golf Association, said last week that he could envision scenarios that would make it much harder for LIV Series players to compete in this major.
Whan is on the OWGR board, as are Monahan and Keith Pelley, the chief executive of the DP World Tour, as well as Martin Slumbers, the R&A chief executive, and Norman is keen to put as much pressure as possible on the panel.
“We’re actually applying for OWGR points right now. We’re putting in our application probably over the weekend, if not Monday,” Norman told Fox News. “It’s a very compelling application. We’ve worked very closely with the technical committee understanding all the components of what you need to apply for it.
“It’s going to be interesting because on the board that votes on the OWGR points for anybody new coming in, here’s Jay Monahan. It’ll be interesting to see if Jay Monahan recuses himself from that vote because of what he said on television with Jim Nantz the other day.
“It’s sad to be putting that additional pressure on it because our tour is a good tour. It’s supported, it’s got an incredible field. If we get the OWGR points, then everything…
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