The OWGR uses a rolling two-year period to calculate a player’s average points per event, but if it only went back 52 weeks, things would look a lot different.
Collin Morikawa could become the new world No.1 with a win at this week’s Hero World Challenge. And if that sounds like it would mark a really quick ascension to the top spot, that’s because it would be.
Starting from next August, the tournaments with the best players in the world are going to be even more valuable from a world ranking perspective, relative to the rest, because of the relative value of the players themselves.
Coincidentally, 2010 was also the last time Fowler did not play in the Masters, which he’s in serious danger of missing this year given he’s still yet to qualify.
A decade and change of utterly dominant golf for Johnson could put him in the same class as Woods when it comes to the world ranking. He’ll be 47 then.
To be fair, while Azinger’s tone and cadence were measured, his comments felt unnecessarily acidic. Trying to belittle the European Tour to make his case isn’t right. That doesn’t mean Azinger was wrong.
After tying for fourth in November at the European Tour’s year-end event in Dubai, McIlroy did not touch a club for six weeks. No playing, no practice, no nothing.
Australian Golf Digest
