LIV Golf CEO Says Talks With OWGR As ‘Encouraging’ & Hopeful Ranking Points Will Be Available In ’26.

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LIV CEO Scott O’Neil has described as ‘encouraging’ his talks with the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) body as encouraging.

This comes after the recent LIV annoucement that from next year all LIV events will change from 54 holes to 72 holes and thus fall in line with those major men’s tournaments played around the world.

It will be a move that LIV will no doubt be hoping will have the OWGR body to allocated World Ranking points to its players and tournaments.

“We are working very closely with [chairman] Trevor Immelman and the board of OWGR,” said Scott speaking with BBC Northern Ireland.

“It’s likely that will have an impact at some point. We are having conversations with Trevor, who is doing an extraordinary and difficult job towards a solution that we hope to have in place by next season.

“I have a lot of time for Trevor Immelman, a lot of respect for him as a chairman and as a leader. I found him strong, demanding, tough at times, and I think really constructive.”

Also speaking with news agency Reuters, O’Neil maintains regular contact with PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp, a friend and former business-school classmate, but said their communication has not brought any meaningful progress towards finalising the framework agreement the two circuits announced in June 2023 before either were in their current role.

“The reality is we continue to have conversations, and Brian and I do have a relationship – we text, we talk relatively regularly,” O’Neil said.

“We are not in any serious negotiation at this point. We both believe that there are opportunities to work together, and we both believe that there is plenty of space in golf. We at LIV Golf are intently focused on developing LIV Golf around the world.”

The golf world is fully aware of the impact LIV has had on golf since its inaugural event in June 2022 while it has only been in this past year there’s been a slight mending with regards access to the four majors and also entry into both Ryder Cup opposing sides.

O’Neil said he still felt LIV Golf should “do something” with the PGA Tour but did not elaborate on what any sort of agreement would look like. He also did not give details on when, or if, the two sides plan to meet next, a stance he said he shared with Rolapp.

“We both agreed that we are going to keep all that stuff between the two of us,” said O’Neil. “If there is ever anything to report we’ll report it.”



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