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LIV Golf's Lee Westwood slams rankings system as 'mockery'

Lee Westwood's tie for 34th at The Open Championship vaulted him 3,759 spots in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Now at No. 930, Westwood is now back ahead of his son, Sam, a mini-tour player who currently sits 2,759th. That served as Exhibit 1 for the Englishman's rant against the world rankings system.

"I think that just proves that without world ranking points it makes a bit of a mockery of the system," Westwood said Wednesday ahead of this week's LIV Golf UK event.

The comments came after the league reapplied for submission to the OWGR last month.