LIV Golf Trying to Get World Ranking Points via Small MENA Tour

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, left, stands with the 4 Aces GC team, from left, Talor Gooch, Captian Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez, after winning the team's fourth straight tournament at the LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago tournament in Sugar Hill, Ill., on Sept. 18, 2022. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo

LIV Golf’s latest bid to get world ranking points is by aligning itself with a little-known tour that offers $75,000 purses and has not held a tournament since early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The MENA Tour—Middle East and North Africa—announced on Oct. 5 a strategic alliance that will result in MENA sanctioning LIV Golf Invitational events and making them part of its tour.