Initially, the Liv Golf, a singular circuit for its competition system and for its limitation to only 54 players per event, fought so that their tournaments were valued by the world ranking. Everything was zancadillas for a new model that was considered too closed to be legitimized. At one point the LIV stopped riding this battle and preserving its format, also waiting for the PGA and the PIF (Sovereign Fund of Saudi Arabia) to reach an agreement.
In view of this, it does not matter to the ranking that Jon Rahm has been second of the Riyader and Sixth Liv Tournament in Adelaida, or that it was the last season in the 54 -hole circuit. This situation has caused the ‘Barrika lion’ to have dropped to the 52nd position this week, so that for the first time since 2017 he leaves the World Top 50 ‘, where he entered when he won the Farmers that year.
Leaving the ‘Top 50’ is not just something symbolic, because tournaments such as Augusta’s masters or the British Open, among their many exemptions, establish their cutting point there as far as the world ranking is concerned. Today, ‘Rahmbo’ has no problem for the ‘Majors’, but it should be remembered that when he left Liv struggled with Scheffler for the first position. He already knew what there was.
The Biscay has begun to add more regularly thanks to the fact that it can now play DP World Tour tournaments (until its appeal is resolved), but the only real way to climb quickly goes through good results in the greats. Last year the Basque did not exceed the cut in Le Masters and the PGA Championship, for example. He was seventh in the British and fifth in the Olympic Games. His performance in the DPWT is not bad, but these tournaments are far from scoring as any of the PGA Tour.
The best classified player of the Saudi Capital circuit is Tyrrell Hatton (8th), while Dechambeau is thirteenth thanks to his good performances in the greats. The logical thing is that Rahm’s fall continues, as most LIV stars fell. His real ascent will not begin until Augusta.