Brandel Chamblee Revisits LIV Golf Ranking Debate as Conversation Takes New Turn

Chamblee said the Official World Golf Rankings had one job to do: to rank the best professional golfers in the world, nothing else.

On April 20, the 5 Clubs Golf account on X pointed out the contrast. Chamblee went from saying LIV players should get OWGR points to now being part of a conversation about whether the league should just shut down altogether.

According to him, the OWGR’s minimum divisor of 40 hurts players in a league like LIV that only plays 14 events, lowering their points no matter how well they perform. To Chamblee, that was a flaw in the system, not a moral issue.

“Every player in LIV should be ranked. If you really want to have an accurate measurement of who’s playing the best golf in professional golf right now,” he added.

The OWGR board then granted LIV Golf ranking points for the first time in February 2026, but only for the top-10 finishers. The event were classified as “Small Field Tournaments.”

Brandel Chamblee Criticized After Rahm’s Win

That same day, Rahm won the LIV Golf Mexico City event by six shots with a bogey-free 64, including an easy eagle. He was in control the whole time. Rahm secured the win before reaching the final nine holes. But Chamblee wasn’t impressed.

“He beat players who sacrificed their careers to play on a tour that was hotter cooked than eaten,” he posted on X.

A week earlier at Augusta, Rahm opened with a birdie-less 78, leaving him 11 shots behind Rory McIlroy and Sam Burns, who both fired 5-under 67s.

Chamblee used that poor round on Golf Channel to argue that two years on LIV had dulled Rahm’s competitive sharpness and that LIV players as a whole had gone backwards due to the tour’s lack of pressure.

Rahm responded after his second round at Augusta.

“Yesterday was just an anomaly where everything that could go wrong went wrong,” he said.

He made the cut, finished tied for 38th at one over par, then flew to Mexico City and won by six. Hard to argue with that response.