LIV Golf filed its software for world rating factors a month after it performed its first occasion, and none was awarded for the inaugural season because the Official World Golf Rating considers it.
The impact of not incomes rating factors — besides for 2 majors and some European tour occasions — is changing into clear with every week.
LIV Golf signed 18 gamers who have been among the many high 50 going into 2022. With two months left within the yr, now there are solely 11. Of these gamers, 9 have been within the high 25 to begin the yr. Now there are three.
Dustin Johnson was No. 13 when he signed. Now he’s at No. 31, one spot behind Corey Conners.
9 gamers have fallen out of the highest 100, a gaggle that features Phil Mickelson, Ian Poulter and Matthew Wolff.
Nonetheless to be decided is how a lot the majors will depend on the world rating as a part of their standards. However even when the majors left every part the way in which it was final yr, 35 of the main 48 gamers from LIV Golf wouldn’t be exempt for the Masters, U.S. Open or British Open subsequent yr. The PGA Championship bases a bulk of its discipline on “special invitations,” and people invites are likely to go to gamers within the high 100.
Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka and almost certainly Johnson can be the one ones assured of enjoying in all 4 majors. All have gained majors from 2019 or onward, and people usually include a five-year exemption to the opposite majors.
TIGER’S MILWAUKEE ACE
Tiger Woods performed to the group when he made a hole-in-one on the Better Milwaukee Open in his skilled debut in 1996. He tossed the ball into the group. It bounced off the palms of Bob Gustin’s brother-in-law proper into his lap.
Much more fortuitous for Gustin was getting Woods to signal the Titleist Skilled 90.
Gustin has stored the ball in a glass case with all of the event data on a gold plaque. And now it’s going to public sale.
The “1996 Tiger Woods Hole-in-One Golf Ball” will probably be in Heritage Auctions’ Fall Sports activities Catalog on Nov. 17-19. A full ticket from the event the place Woods made his professional debut bought for $99,000 in February.
Gustin mentioned he can be splitting the proceed with David Beck, his brother-in-law.
“He’s the one who shouted, ‘Throw it over here!’ He’s the only who it deflected off of before it came to me,” Gustin mentioned. “We both had a part in me ending up with this ball, so we’ll both enjoy it after it goes to someone else.”
Woods had made solely three aces on tour, all early in his profession. He made his most well-known hole-in-one on the sixteenth gap of the Phoenix Open the next yr, and his third one on the Dash Worldwide in 1998.
LYDIA MOVES ON
Lydia Ko is making one other teaching change, leaving Sean Foley after greater than two years. Ko mentioned the cut up was for “logistical reasons.”
The cut up comes throughout one among Ko’s most constant seasons. She has risen to No. 3 on this planet and leads the race for LPGA Participant of the Yr (by one level) and the Vare Trophy for the bottom scoring common.
“When I first met Sean, I was in a place where I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself and in my game,” Ko wrote on Instagram. “Over the past two years he has helped me evolve as a better player and person. Our time together was full of so much learning, laughter. Last month, we decided to go our own ways as a coach and player due to logistical reasons, but Sean will always be a close friend. Sean has been and will be a mentor to me.”
NEW NO. 1
Jin Younger Ko misplaced the No. 1 rating this week to Atthaya Thitikul, largely because of an injured left wrist that stored her out for 2 months and led to her withdrawing when she returned two weeks in the past on the BMW Girls Championship in South Korea.
Ko now has an opportunity to do one thing nobody else has for the reason that girls’s world rating made its debut in 2006. Nobody has reached No. 1 5 occasions.
Ko, Sung Hyun Park and Inbee Park every have gone to No. 1 on 4 events. Ko is hopeful of returning for the ultimate two LPGA occasions in Florida.
She has been No. 1 for 156 weeks, two weeks wanting the document set by Lorena Ochoa. Ochoa reached No. 1 solely as soon as and stayed there till her shock retirement in 2010.
ASIAN TOUR
Chase Koepka has performed in Bangkok, Saudi Arabia and Miami prior to now 4 months. Now he’s headed for Morocco to play within the Worldwide Collection occasion on the Asian Tour.
By no means thoughts that Koepka gained extra money on LIV Golf this yr — $4.3 million — than the Asian Tour occasion affords in whole prize cash ($1.5 million).
Koepka is amongst six gamers who earned extra in LIV Golf than the entire prize discover in Morocco this week. The others are James Piot, Turk Pettit, Wade Ormsby, Sihwan Kim and Phachara Khongwatmai.
The Morocco discipline contains 15 gamers who’ve competed in no less than one LIV Golf Invitational occasion this yr, together with Andy Ogletree. He performed within the inaugural LIV occasion exterior London, completed final and made $120,000.
HAVE GAME, WILL TRAVEL
Within the non-major division, Rory McIlroy successful the CJ Cup at Congaree and The Summit allowed him to hitch Tiger Woods as the one gamers prior to now 20 years to twice defend a title on a unique course.
McIlroy additionally gained the Canadian Open at Hamilton in 2019 and at St. George’s in 2022 (two years have been canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic). Woods gained a World Golf Championship in Eire (2002) and north of Atlanta (2003), after which Harding Park (2005), The Grove exterior London (2006) and Doral (2007).
Throw within the majors over the previous 20 years and the record expands.
Woods twice defended his PGA Championship title at totally different programs (Medinah-Valhalla in 1999-2000 and Medinah-Southern Hills in 2006-07) and the British Open (St. Andrews-Royal Liverpool in 2005-06). Brooks Koepka gained the U.S. Open in consecutive years at Erin Hills and Shinnecock Hills and the PGA Championship at Bellerive and Bethpage Black).
DIVOTS
Chicago Golf Membership, one of many founding golf equipment of the USGA, will host the U.S. Girls’s Open for the primary time in 2033. … Oliver Bekker has performed 26 occasions on the European tour this yr and earned 776,297 euros. He performed one time at a LIV Golf Invitational and made $737,500. … The Irish Open is shifting to Sept. 7-10 subsequent yr, placing it two weeks after the FedEx Cup ends and two weeks earlier than the Ryder Cup in Italy. … In the future after Tennessee Volunteers freshman Caleb Surratt was 21 photographs worse (64-85), he was 20 photographs higher (85-65) on the Bermuda Championship. … John Solheim has been chosen to obtain the PGA Distinguished Service Award. Solheim, the manager chairman of Ping and the son of founder Karsten Solheim, is to be honored Wednesday on the PGA of America’s annual assembly in Phoenix. … Twelve of the previous 13 winners on the PGA Tour have been ranked inside the highest 50 on this planet. The exception was Mackenzie Hughes (No. 82) within the Sanderson Farms Championship.
STAT OF THE WEEK
Together with his bonus for successful the season factors race, Johnson averaged $1,484,907 for each spherical he performed on LIV Golf this yr.
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FINAL WORD
“How could they ignore us now?” — Talor Gooch on the conclusion of the LIV Golf season.
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