Let’s Talk About the OWGR

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Official World Golf Ranking has unexpectedly become a lightning rod for debate this year because of its decisions to overhaul its formula and turn down the upstart LIV Golf league's request for immediate membership. To sort through this mess, Garrett sits down with Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna), co-founder of Optimal Approach Golf and author of the Finding the Edge newsletter. Joseph and Garrett tackle the ins and outs of the OWGR, explaining the new formula, the criteria LIV needs to meet to be granted world-ranking points, and the overall importance of the system to the world of professional golf.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example, I'm already upset, when I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg.
0:10.0	Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg.
0:12.0	Bright egg lie.
0:13.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Friday podcast.
0:37.0	I'm Garrett Morrison.
0:38.0	And today we are digging into the debates around the official world golf ranking.
0:42.0	The OWGR, which is the dominant global ranking system in men's professional golf, has somewhat surprisingly become a lightning rod for controversy this year.
0:52.0	There are two main reasons for that.
0:54.0	One a few months ago, the OWGR introduced a new formula that critics say will do major damage to any tour not named the PGA tour.
1:04.0	And two, the upstart league live golf has not yet been approved by the OWGR and probably won't be anytime soon.
1:12.0	Live is desperate to change this because world ranking points are an important way that players qualify for the four majors.
1:19.0	And lives advocates have pointed out that the OWGR is governed by a board that includes PGA tour commissioner J. Monahan and others invested in golf's status quo.
1:29.0	So it's a big conspiracy.
1:31.0	Except not really.
1:32.0	It's more complicated than that.
1:33.0	And to sort it all out, I'm talking to Joseph LaManya.
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