New Points Ranking System

[redseat]

Five things to know about the new Official World Golf Ranking

This isn’t the first update to the Official World Golf Ranking. In its 35 years, the system has been adjusted at least 17 times, according to Peter Dawson, the chairman of the OWGR’s Governing Board.

Under the new world ranking, a field will be evaluated based on the skill of all players in the field. The old system focused primarily on players ranked in the top 200 of the world, with little regard for the skill level of the remainder of the field.


Each player will now have a Strokes Gained World Rating based on his scores in stroke-play events over the past two years. A player’s SG World Rating will determine how many Performance Points he contributes to the field.

The sum of Performance Points determines the tournament’s Field Rating, which determines the number of Ranking Points that will be distributed. Ranking points will be awarded to all players who make the cut in a similar distribution to the prize purse, i.e. 18% to the winner, 11% to second place, etc. The old system did not guarantee points to all players who made the cut, but the new one does.

Other features of the world ranking, such as its two-year weighted average, and minimum and maximum divisors for individual players remain intact.


thoughts?

 

[R.J. MacReady]

Five things to know about the new Official World Golf Ranking

This isn’t the first update to the Official World Golf Ranking. In its 35 years, the system has been adjusted at least 17 times, according to Peter Dawson, the chairman of the OWGR’s Governing Board.

Under the new world ranking, a field will be evaluated based on the skill of all players in the field. The old system focused primarily on players ranked in the top 200 of the world, with little regard for the skill level of the remainder of the field.


Each player will now have a Strokes Gained World Rating based on his scores in stroke-play events over the past two years. A player’s SG World Rating will determine how many Performance Points he contributes to the field.

The sum of Performance Points determines the tournament’s Field Rating, which determines the number of Ranking Points that will be distributed. Ranking points will be awarded to all players who make the cut in a similar distribution to the prize purse, i.e. 18% to the winner, 11% to second place, etc. The old system did not guarantee points to all players who made the cut, but the new one does.

Other features of the world ranking, such as its two-year weighted average, and minimum and maximum divisors for individual players remain intact.


thoughts?

My theory is this will do what is exactly what it's been redesigned to do.

They will allow the sports media more wiggle room to justify there existing narratives that they have for players on the tour. They have a financial interest promoting certain players.

There is always a financial motive behind "improvements" ...what do you think all of the rules changes they made were for.




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[redseat]

My theory is this will do what is exactly what it's been redesigned to do.

They will allow the sports media more wiggle room to justify there existing narratives that they have for players on the tour. They have a financial interest promoting certain players.

There is always a financial motive behind "improvements" ...what do you think all of the rules changes they made were for.




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Oh, of course these changes are solely being made as a financial decision