PGA Tour, DP World Tour bosses recuse themselves from LIV Golf’s world rating overview
Jay Monahan and Keith Pelley have recused themselves from reviewing LIV Golf’s utility for Official World Golf Ranking factors.
Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, and Pelley, the CEO of the DP World Tour, are two of the seven members of the OWGR board of administrators that in the end decides the destiny of excursions in search of accreditation.
Keith Waters, who heads up the International Federation of PGA Tours and is the DP World Tour’s chief working officer, has additionally recused himself from the applying.
Pelley disclosed this resolution to reporters overlaying the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, which begins Thursday within the United Arab Emirates. The PGA Tour confirmed that Monahan has eliminated himself from the method.
“I have not looked at the LIV application,” Pelley stated throughout a session with reporters in Dubai. “So I can’t give an opinion on an application I have not seen. It is in the hands of the technical committee. On the advice of legal counsel, myself and Jay recused ourselves from the separate committee. Representatives of the four majors will now determine the LIV application. We are not involved and we have no influence on what transpires as far as LIV goes.”
With three members of the board out of the choice, meaning it will be determined by the 4 representatives from the key championships. For Augusta National and the Masters, that’s government director Will Jones. The different representatives are Seth Waugh, CEO of the PGA of America; Mike Whan, CEO of the United States Golf Association; and Martin Slumbers, CEO of the R&A.
Peter Dawson, the previous head of the R&A, is chairman of the OWGR governing board.
The technical committee is made up of 12 members representing all 4 majors and numerous excursions world wide, together with the Asian Tour and CEO Cho Minn Thant. The Asian Tour has a monetary association by LIV Golf through funding for the International Series, an elevated group of tournaments a part of the Asian Tour schedule—and which affords a spot into the LIV Golf League.
Greg Norman, the CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf, has maintained that Monahan and Pelley’s affiliation with the OWGR is a battle of curiosity given their opposition to the LIV Golf League.
LIV Golf first submitted its utility in July. It later submitted one other utility by partnering with the MENA Tour, a developmental tour that’s already afforded factors. It continues to be hoping {that a} resolution might be reached on whether or not it will likely be awarded factors for its occasions previous to the primary occasion, Feb. 24-26, at Mayakoba in Mexico.
