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 Wednesday a strategic alliance that will result in MENA sanctioning LIV Golf Invitational events and making them part of its tour.

The MENA Tour said it would submit the 48-man field from the LIV Golf Invitational-thailand to the OWGR this week before the 54-hole event starts on Friday. It said all LIV Golf players, such as Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, have joined the MENA Tour.

LIV and its leader, Greg Norman, have been desperate to get world ranking points for its inaugural season of seven tournaments.