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The 'Official World Golf Rankings' is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers. They were introduced in 1986 and are endorsed by the four Major Championships and the six professional tours which make up the International Federation of PGA Tours, namely the PGA Tour, the European Tour, the Asian Tour, the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Japan Golf Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. Points are also awarded for high finishes on the Canadian Tour, Nationwide Tour and Challenge Tour.
The initiative for the creation of the Official World Golf Rankings came from the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which found in the 1980s that its system of issuing invitations to The Open Championship on a tour by tour basis was omitting an increasing number of top players because more of them were dividing their time between tours, and from preeminent sports agent Mark McCormack, who was the first chairman of the International Advisory Committee which oversees the rankings. The system used to calculate the rankings was developed from McCormack's World Golf Rankings, which were published in his ''World of Professional Golf Annual'' from 1968 to 1985, although these were purely unofficial and not used for any wider purpose (such as inviting players to major tournaments).
The first ranking list was published prior to the 1986 Masters Tournament. The top six ranked golfers were: Bernhard Langer, Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson, Mark O'Meara and Greg Norman. Thus the top three were all European, but there were thirty-one Americans in the top fifty (compared with thirteen at the end of 2006).
The method of calculation of the rankings has changed considerably over the years. Initially, the rankings were calculated over a three year period, with the current year's points multiplied by four, the previous year's points by two and the third year's points by one. Rankings were based on the total points and points awarded were restricted to integer values. All tournaments recognised by the world's professional tours, and some leading invitational events, were graded into categories ranging from Major Championship (whose winners would receive 50 points) to "other tournaments" (whose winners would receive a minimum of 8). In all events, other finishers received points on a diminishing scale that began with runners-up receiving 60% of the winners' points, and the number of players in the field receiving points would be the same as the points awarded to the winner. In a major, for example, all players finishing 30th to 40th would receive 2 points, and all players finishing 50th or higher, 1 point.
Beginning in 1989, the rankings were changed to be based on the average points per event played instead of simply total points earned, subject to a minimum divisor of 60 (20 events per year). This was in order to more accurately reflect the status of some (particularly older) players, who played in far fewer events than their younger contemporaries but demonstrated in major championships that their ranking was artificially low. Tom Watson, for example, finished in the top 15 of eight Major Championships between 1987 and 1989, yet had a "total points" ranking of just 40th; this became 20th when the system changed to "average points". A new system for determining the "weight" of each tournament was also introduced, based on the strength of the tournament's field in terms of their pre-tournament world rankings. Major championships were guaranteed to remain at 50 points for the winners, and all other events could attain a maximum of 40 points for the winner if all of the world's top 100 were present. In practice most PGA Tour events awarded around 25 points to the winner, European Tour events around 18 and JPGA Tour events around 12.
In 1996, the three year period was reduced to two years, with the current year now counting double. Points were extended to more of the field, beginning in 2000, and were no longer restricted to integer values. Beginning in September 2001, the tapering system was changed so that instead of the points for each result being doubled if they occurred in the most recent 12 months, one eighth of the initial "multiplied up" value was deducted every 13 weeks. This change effectively meant that players could now be more simply described as being awarded 100 points (not 50) for winning a major. Beginning in 2007, the system holds the points from each event at full value for 13 weeks and then reduces them in equal weekly increments over the remainder of the two year period.
At first only the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient used the rankings for official purposes, but the PGA Tour recognized them in 1990, and in 1997 all five of the then principal men's golf tours did so. The rankings, which had previously been called the 'Sony Rankings', were renamed the Official World Golf Rankings at that time. They are run from offices in Virginia Water in Surrey, England.
Twelve players have been World No. 1. Seve Ballesteros took over from Bernhard Langer and vied with Greg Norman for the No.1 spot, then Nick Faldo took over as Greg Norman’s rival. Ian Woosnam and Fred Couples held the position through 1991 and 1992 before Nick Faldo took over again through to 1994, when Nick Price’s career year took him to No. 1. After a single week at No. 1 by Tom Lehman, Tiger Woods dominated the position from 1997 to 2005 with brief interruptions from Ernie Els and David Duval. In September 2004 Vijay Singh became the twelfth World No. 1, and he and Woods swapped the position several times in 2005, but Woods eventually opened a wide lead, which he held throughout 2006. Woods holds the longest consecutive streak as No. 1 at 264 weeks.
Points are awarded on the basis of final positions in official money events on the qualifying tours.
For each tour, a minimum number of points are available for each event. For most events the actual number of points available depends on the current rankings (top 200) of the participating golfers and the ranking of the top 30 golfers entered from the "home tour". Major championships have a fixed number of 100 points for the winner. In addition, most tours have a "premier event" that is guaranteed a much higher minimum point level.
The winners of the three individual events in the World Golf Championships series generally receive 70 to 78 points. The winner of most PGA Tour events gains a number of points in the range from 24 to the 70s, and most European Tour events offer a points tally between 24 and 50s for the winner. Before 2007 the official points allocations were half these levels, and they were initially doubled up to calculate weighted points. For example a major championship win carried 50 points for the winner, which was initially given a weighting of two, so the adjusted points tally was 100. This system, which was confusing and had no apparent advantages, was abandoned in mid 2007. Tournaments which are reduced to 54 holes by inclement weather or other factors retain full points, but if a tournament is reduced to 36 holes, its points allocation is reduced by 25%.
Each player's personal ranking is calculated from the ranking points he has obtained over the previous two years. Firstly, his points from all the tournaments he has played in are scaled down over a two year period. The full value of a tournament holds for 13 weeks, but from then on it is reduced in equal weekly increments over the remainder of the two year period, in order to give priority to recent form. The player's adjusted points are then totalled, and this total is divided by the number of ranking tournaments in which he has participated over the previous two years, subject to a minimum denominator of 40 tournaments. The resulting averages for all players are put into descending order to produce the ranking table. This means that the player who has obtained most cumulative success does not necessarily come top of the rankings: it is ''average'' performance levels that are important, and some golfers play substantially more tournaments than others. Players with full membership of one of the larger tours (that is, almost all players in the top few hundred in the rankings) usually play between 20 and 35 ranking tournaments each year, unless they are injured. New rankings are released every Monday.
A professional golfer's ranking is of considerable significance to his career. For example, a ranking in the World Top 50 explicitly grants automatic entry to four majors and the three World Golf Championships, see table below. Also, ranking points are the sole criterion for selection for the International Team in the Presidents Cup and one of the qualification criteria for the European Ryder Cup team - and playing in either of those tournaments gives a player an automatic two year exemption on the PGA Tour. The rankings are also used to help select the field for various other tournaments.
Note: The PGA Championship does not have an official automatic entry based on the Official World Golf Ranking but has invited those in the top 100 for the last several years. It makes note of its strong field by referencing the number of top 100 ranked golfers entered in its press releases.
[1]
[2]
The rankings are well known to those who follow men's professional golf and feature prominently in media coverage of the sport. When Vijay Singh temporarily ended Tiger Woods' record run as world number 1 in 2004 it was one of the most reported golf stories of the year.
These are the current top 10 ranked golfers and their point tallies as of September 2, 2007.
Tiger Woods set the record for the highest Points Average on June 3, 2001 when he ended the week with an average of 32.44 (1459.64 points averaged over 45 events).
Tiger Woods also achieved the largest ever lead of 19.40 average points in the rankings on May 20, 2001. His lead was over then world number two Phil Mickelson following his victory at the Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe.
Ernie Els holds the record for most weeks in the World Top 10, with 688. He is followed by Greg Norman (646 weeks) and Tiger Woods (543 weeks).[5]
These are the golfers who have topped the rankings, in order of the number of weeks they have spent at Number 1 up to September 2, 2007, at which date Tiger Woods was World Number 1. His current spell at the top of the rankings is his tenth. It began on June 12, 2005 when he regained first place from Vijay Singh.
The "Order" column indicates the sequence in which the players first reached number 1. The "Majors" column shows the number of major championships each player has won through the 2007 PGA Championship.
Of these players Bernhard Langer and Seve Ballesteros would be most likely to gain additional weeks at number 1 if the rankings were backdated to before 1986 (Ballesteros was ranked number one in the McCormack rankings in 1983, 1984, and 1985, which were only published at December 31st each year). Jack Nicklaus was number one on those year-end rankings from 1968 to 1977 inclusive, and would have been likely to have been number one from around 1965 onwards if those rankings, in turn, had been backdated. Notwithstanding possible in-year interventions at number one from Gary Player, Billy Casper, Lee Trevino and Johnny Miller in some of those years, it is probable Nicklaus would have been ranked number one for as many as 600 weeks.
Only on a few occasions have the rankings attracted criticism for producing the "wrong" World Number One. This accusation usually occurs when a player has emerged as number one despite not winning a Major Championship during the ranking period, while a rival has won more than one - notably in July 1990, when Nick Faldo remained ranked behind Greg Norman despite winning three majors in two years. On that occasion, it was also the case (but less apparent) that Norman had won 14 times during the ranking period, to Faldo's 10, and in events when the two had both competed, had finished ahead of his rival 19 times to 11. Similarly, at the end of 1997, Greg Norman remained narrowly ahead of Tiger Woods in the rankings despite Woods's astonishing rookie season, which many expected to be sufficient to make Woods number one. However, just twelve months later, some questioned why Woods himself was ranked number one, after a season in which Mark O'Meara won two major titles.
A breakdown of the year-end top-100 by nationality.
A breakdown of the year-end top-100 by eligibility for the major team competitions: Ryder Cup (US vs. Europe) and Presidents Cup (US vs. non-European international team).
'Year end world number 1 ranked golfers'
'Mark H. McCormack Award - Most weeks at number 1 during calendar year'
★ 1998 Tiger Woods
★ 1999 Tiger Woods (2)
★ 2000 Tiger Woods (3)
★ 2001 Tiger Woods (4)
★ 2002 Tiger Woods (5)
★ 2003 Tiger Woods (6)
★ 2004 Tiger Woods (7)
★ 2005 Tiger Woods (8)
★ 2006 Tiger Woods (9)
★ 2007 Tiger Woods (10) (virtual)
'Year end world top 10 players and ranking point tallies'
See History section above for notes on changes to method of calculation.
'Single-season total ranking points leaders'
Although not recognized by any official award, these golfers have won the most World Ranking Points during the years for which the rankings have been calculated:
★ 1984 Tom Watson
★ 1985 Bernhard Langer
★ 1986 Greg Norman
★ 1987 Seve Ballesteros and Ian Woosnam
★ 1988 Seve Ballesteros
★ 1989 Greg Norman
★ 1990 José María Olazábal
★ 1991 Seve Ballesteros
★ 1992 Nick Faldo
★ 1993 Greg Norman
★ 1994 Ernie Els
★ 1995 Greg Norman
★ 1996 Tom Lehman
★ 1997 Ernie Els
★ 1998 Mark O'Meara
★ 1999 Tiger Woods
★ 2000 Tiger Woods
★ 2001 Tiger Woods
★ 2002 Tiger Woods
★ 2003 Vijay Singh
★ 2004 Vijay Singh
★ 2005 Tiger Woods
★ 2006 Tiger Woods
Since 1996, the International Federation of PGA Tours has sanctioned a World Money List [13] which is the total official money earned by a player on all member tours. It is computed in United States dollars. The yearly leaders are listed below.
1. The Players Championship is the premier event that is sanctioned only by the PGA Tour. The four major championships are co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and have higher points allocations than The Players Championship.
2. The BMW PGA Championship (which is historically the British PGA Championship) is the leading event that is sanctioned by the European Tour only. The four major championships and the three individual World Golf Championships events are co-sanctioned by the European Tour and have higher ranking point allocations than the BMW PGA Championship.
3. The Japan Open is the leading event that is sanctioned by the Japanese Tour only. The four major championships and the three individual World Golf Championships events are co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour and have higher ranking point allocations than the Japan Open
4. The Volvo Masters of Asia is the Asian Tour championship and is designated as the tour's premier event for ranking purposes, but the tour's richest sole sanctioned event, the Singapore Open, and several events that are co-sanctioned with the European Tour, offer more ranking points based on strength of field co-efficient.
5. Official World Golf Ranking - Top Tens, ''Golf Today'' February 4 2007
★ Chronological list of World Number One male golfers
★ Women's World Golf Rankings - for female professional golfers
★ World Amateur Golf Rankings - for male amateur golfers
★ Official World Golf Rankings website (includes archive of weekly ranking lists of Top-200 from 1987 on)
History
The initiative for the creation of the Official World Golf Rankings came from the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which found in the 1980s that its system of issuing invitations to The Open Championship on a tour by tour basis was omitting an increasing number of top players because more of them were dividing their time between tours, and from preeminent sports agent Mark McCormack, who was the first chairman of the International Advisory Committee which oversees the rankings. The system used to calculate the rankings was developed from McCormack's World Golf Rankings, which were published in his ''World of Professional Golf Annual'' from 1968 to 1985, although these were purely unofficial and not used for any wider purpose (such as inviting players to major tournaments).
The first ranking list was published prior to the 1986 Masters Tournament. The top six ranked golfers were: Bernhard Langer, Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson, Mark O'Meara and Greg Norman. Thus the top three were all European, but there were thirty-one Americans in the top fifty (compared with thirteen at the end of 2006).
The method of calculation of the rankings has changed considerably over the years. Initially, the rankings were calculated over a three year period, with the current year's points multiplied by four, the previous year's points by two and the third year's points by one. Rankings were based on the total points and points awarded were restricted to integer values. All tournaments recognised by the world's professional tours, and some leading invitational events, were graded into categories ranging from Major Championship (whose winners would receive 50 points) to "other tournaments" (whose winners would receive a minimum of 8). In all events, other finishers received points on a diminishing scale that began with runners-up receiving 60% of the winners' points, and the number of players in the field receiving points would be the same as the points awarded to the winner. In a major, for example, all players finishing 30th to 40th would receive 2 points, and all players finishing 50th or higher, 1 point.
Beginning in 1989, the rankings were changed to be based on the average points per event played instead of simply total points earned, subject to a minimum divisor of 60 (20 events per year). This was in order to more accurately reflect the status of some (particularly older) players, who played in far fewer events than their younger contemporaries but demonstrated in major championships that their ranking was artificially low. Tom Watson, for example, finished in the top 15 of eight Major Championships between 1987 and 1989, yet had a "total points" ranking of just 40th; this became 20th when the system changed to "average points". A new system for determining the "weight" of each tournament was also introduced, based on the strength of the tournament's field in terms of their pre-tournament world rankings. Major championships were guaranteed to remain at 50 points for the winners, and all other events could attain a maximum of 40 points for the winner if all of the world's top 100 were present. In practice most PGA Tour events awarded around 25 points to the winner, European Tour events around 18 and JPGA Tour events around 12.
In 1996, the three year period was reduced to two years, with the current year now counting double. Points were extended to more of the field, beginning in 2000, and were no longer restricted to integer values. Beginning in September 2001, the tapering system was changed so that instead of the points for each result being doubled if they occurred in the most recent 12 months, one eighth of the initial "multiplied up" value was deducted every 13 weeks. This change effectively meant that players could now be more simply described as being awarded 100 points (not 50) for winning a major. Beginning in 2007, the system holds the points from each event at full value for 13 weeks and then reduces them in equal weekly increments over the remainder of the two year period.
At first only the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient used the rankings for official purposes, but the PGA Tour recognized them in 1990, and in 1997 all five of the then principal men's golf tours did so. The rankings, which had previously been called the 'Sony Rankings', were renamed the Official World Golf Rankings at that time. They are run from offices in Virginia Water in Surrey, England.
Twelve players have been World No. 1. Seve Ballesteros took over from Bernhard Langer and vied with Greg Norman for the No.1 spot, then Nick Faldo took over as Greg Norman’s rival. Ian Woosnam and Fred Couples held the position through 1991 and 1992 before Nick Faldo took over again through to 1994, when Nick Price’s career year took him to No. 1. After a single week at No. 1 by Tom Lehman, Tiger Woods dominated the position from 1997 to 2005 with brief interruptions from Ernie Els and David Duval. In September 2004 Vijay Singh became the twelfth World No. 1, and he and Woods swapped the position several times in 2005, but Woods eventually opened a wide lead, which he held throughout 2006. Woods holds the longest consecutive streak as No. 1 at 264 weeks.
Calculation of the rankings
Points are awarded on the basis of final positions in official money events on the qualifying tours.
For each tour, a minimum number of points are available for each event. For most events the actual number of points available depends on the current rankings (top 200) of the participating golfers and the ranking of the top 30 golfers entered from the "home tour". Major championships have a fixed number of 100 points for the winner. In addition, most tours have a "premier event" that is guaranteed a much higher minimum point level.
| Tour | Minimum Points | Premier Event | Minimum Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| PGA Tour | 24 | The Players Championship [1] | 80 |
| European Tour | 24 | BMW PGA Championship [2] | 64 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 16 | Japan Open [3] | 32 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 16 | Australian Open | 32 |
| Sunshine Tour | 14 | South African Open | 32 |
| Asian Tour | 14 | Volvo Masters of Asia [4] | 20 |
| Nationwide Tour | 14 | Nationwide Tour Championship | 20 |
| Challenge Tour | 12 | n/a | n/a |
| Canadian Tour | 6 | n/a | n/a |
The winners of the three individual events in the World Golf Championships series generally receive 70 to 78 points. The winner of most PGA Tour events gains a number of points in the range from 24 to the 70s, and most European Tour events offer a points tally between 24 and 50s for the winner. Before 2007 the official points allocations were half these levels, and they were initially doubled up to calculate weighted points. For example a major championship win carried 50 points for the winner, which was initially given a weighting of two, so the adjusted points tally was 100. This system, which was confusing and had no apparent advantages, was abandoned in mid 2007. Tournaments which are reduced to 54 holes by inclement weather or other factors retain full points, but if a tournament is reduced to 36 holes, its points allocation is reduced by 25%.
Each player's personal ranking is calculated from the ranking points he has obtained over the previous two years. Firstly, his points from all the tournaments he has played in are scaled down over a two year period. The full value of a tournament holds for 13 weeks, but from then on it is reduced in equal weekly increments over the remainder of the two year period, in order to give priority to recent form. The player's adjusted points are then totalled, and this total is divided by the number of ranking tournaments in which he has participated over the previous two years, subject to a minimum denominator of 40 tournaments. The resulting averages for all players are put into descending order to produce the ranking table. This means that the player who has obtained most cumulative success does not necessarily come top of the rankings: it is ''average'' performance levels that are important, and some golfers play substantially more tournaments than others. Players with full membership of one of the larger tours (that is, almost all players in the top few hundred in the rankings) usually play between 20 and 35 ranking tournaments each year, unless they are injured. New rankings are released every Monday.
Importance of the rankings
A professional golfer's ranking is of considerable significance to his career. For example, a ranking in the World Top 50 explicitly grants automatic entry to four majors and the three World Golf Championships, see table below. Also, ranking points are the sole criterion for selection for the International Team in the Presidents Cup and one of the qualification criteria for the European Ryder Cup team - and playing in either of those tournaments gives a player an automatic two year exemption on the PGA Tour. The rankings are also used to help select the field for various other tournaments.
| Tournament | Automatic entries |
|---|---|
| The Masters | Top 50 |
| U.S. Open | Top 50 |
| The Open Championship | Top 50 |
| PGA Championship | (Top 100)see note |
| WGC-Accenture World Match Play Championship | Top 64 (sole criterion) |
| WGC-CA Championship | Top 50 |
| WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | Top 50 |
Note: The PGA Championship does not have an official automatic entry based on the Official World Golf Ranking but has invited those in the top 100 for the last several years. It makes note of its strong field by referencing the number of top 100 ranked golfers entered in its press releases.
[1]
[2]
The rankings are well known to those who follow men's professional golf and feature prominently in media coverage of the sport. When Vijay Singh temporarily ended Tiger Woods' record run as world number 1 in 2004 it was one of the most reported golf stories of the year.
Current rankings
These are the current top 10 ranked golfers and their point tallies as of September 2, 2007.
| Rank | Player | Country | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 22.43 | |
| 2 | Phil Mickelson | 10.03 | |
| 3 | Jim Furyk | 8.39 | |
| 4 | Ernie Els | 7.59 | |
| 5 | Steve Stricker | 6.57 | |
| 6 | Adam Scott | 6.39 | |
| 7 | Padraig Harrington | 6.15 | |
| 8 | Geoff Ogilvy | 5.86 | |
| 9 | K.J. Choi | 5.74 | |
| 10 | Vijay Singh | 5.60 |
Tiger Woods set the record for the highest Points Average on June 3, 2001 when he ended the week with an average of 32.44 (1459.64 points averaged over 45 events).
Tiger Woods also achieved the largest ever lead of 19.40 average points in the rankings on May 20, 2001. His lead was over then world number two Phil Mickelson following his victory at the Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe.
Ernie Els holds the record for most weeks in the World Top 10, with 688. He is followed by Greg Norman (646 weeks) and Tiger Woods (543 weeks).[5]
Number 1 ranked golfers
These are the golfers who have topped the rankings, in order of the number of weeks they have spent at Number 1 up to September 2, 2007, at which date Tiger Woods was World Number 1. His current spell at the top of the rankings is his tenth. It began on June 12, 2005 when he regained first place from Vijay Singh.
The "Order" column indicates the sequence in which the players first reached number 1. The "Majors" column shows the number of major championships each player has won through the 2007 PGA Championship.
| Weeks | Player | Country | Order | Majors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 459 | Tiger Woods | 9 | 13 | |
| 331 | Greg Norman | 3 | 2 | |
| 98 | Nick Faldo | 4 | 6 | |
| 61 | Seve Ballesteros | 2 | 5 | |
| 50 | Ian Woosnam | 5 | 1 | |
| 43 | Nick Price | 7 | 3 | |
| 32 | Vijay Singh | 12 | 3 | |
| 16 | Fred Couples | 6 | 1 | |
| 15 | David Duval | 11 | 1 | |
| 9 | Ernie Els | 10 | 3 | |
| 3 | Bernhard Langer | 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | Tom Lehman | 8 | 1 |
Of these players Bernhard Langer and Seve Ballesteros would be most likely to gain additional weeks at number 1 if the rankings were backdated to before 1986 (Ballesteros was ranked number one in the McCormack rankings in 1983, 1984, and 1985, which were only published at December 31st each year). Jack Nicklaus was number one on those year-end rankings from 1968 to 1977 inclusive, and would have been likely to have been number one from around 1965 onwards if those rankings, in turn, had been backdated. Notwithstanding possible in-year interventions at number one from Gary Player, Billy Casper, Lee Trevino and Johnny Miller in some of those years, it is probable Nicklaus would have been ranked number one for as many as 600 weeks.
Ranking controversies
Only on a few occasions have the rankings attracted criticism for producing the "wrong" World Number One. This accusation usually occurs when a player has emerged as number one despite not winning a Major Championship during the ranking period, while a rival has won more than one - notably in July 1990, when Nick Faldo remained ranked behind Greg Norman despite winning three majors in two years. On that occasion, it was also the case (but less apparent) that Norman had won 14 times during the ranking period, to Faldo's 10, and in events when the two had both competed, had finished ahead of his rival 19 times to 11. Similarly, at the end of 1997, Greg Norman remained narrowly ahead of Tiger Woods in the rankings despite Woods's astonishing rookie season, which many expected to be sufficient to make Woods number one. However, just twelve months later, some questioned why Woods himself was ranked number one, after a season in which Mark O'Meara won two major titles.
Breakdown by nationality
A breakdown of the year-end top-100 by nationality.
A breakdown of the year-end top-100 by eligibility for the major team competitions: Ryder Cup (US vs. Europe) and Presidents Cup (US vs. non-European international team).
Rankings archive
'Year end world number 1 ranked golfers'
★ 1986 Greg Norman ★ 1987 Greg Norman (2) ★ 1988 Seve Ballesteros ★ 1989 Greg Norman (3) | ★ 1990 Greg Norman (4) ★ 1991 Ian Woosnam ★ 1992 Nick Faldo ★ 1993 Nick Faldo (2) ★ 1994 Nick Price ★ 1995 Greg Norman (4) ★ 1996 Greg Norman (5) ★ 1997 Greg Norman (6) ★ 1998 Tiger Woods ★ 1999 Tiger Woods (2) | ★ 2000 Tiger Woods (3) ★ 2001 Tiger Woods (4) ★ 2002 Tiger Woods (5) ★ 2003 Tiger Woods (6) ★ 2004 Vijay Singh ★ 2005 Tiger Woods (7) ★ 2006 Tiger Woods (8) |
'Mark H. McCormack Award - Most weeks at number 1 during calendar year'
★ 1998 Tiger Woods
★ 1999 Tiger Woods (2)
★ 2000 Tiger Woods (3)
★ 2001 Tiger Woods (4)
★ 2002 Tiger Woods (5)
★ 2003 Tiger Woods (6)
★ 2004 Tiger Woods (7)
★ 2005 Tiger Woods (8)
★ 2006 Tiger Woods (9)
★ 2007 Tiger Woods (10) (virtual)
'Year end world top 10 players and ranking point tallies'
See History section above for notes on changes to method of calculation.
'Single-season total ranking points leaders'
Although not recognized by any official award, these golfers have won the most World Ranking Points during the years for which the rankings have been calculated:
★ 1984 Tom Watson
★ 1985 Bernhard Langer
★ 1986 Greg Norman
★ 1987 Seve Ballesteros and Ian Woosnam
★ 1988 Seve Ballesteros
★ 1989 Greg Norman
★ 1990 José María Olazábal
★ 1991 Seve Ballesteros
★ 1992 Nick Faldo
★ 1993 Greg Norman
★ 1994 Ernie Els
★ 1995 Greg Norman
★ 1996 Tom Lehman
★ 1997 Ernie Els
★ 1998 Mark O'Meara
★ 1999 Tiger Woods
★ 2000 Tiger Woods
★ 2001 Tiger Woods
★ 2002 Tiger Woods
★ 2003 Vijay Singh
★ 2004 Vijay Singh
★ 2005 Tiger Woods
★ 2006 Tiger Woods
World Money List
Since 1996, the International Federation of PGA Tours has sanctioned a World Money List [13] which is the total official money earned by a player on all member tours. It is computed in United States dollars. The yearly leaders are listed below.
Notes and References
1. The Players Championship is the premier event that is sanctioned only by the PGA Tour. The four major championships are co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and have higher points allocations than The Players Championship.
2. The BMW PGA Championship (which is historically the British PGA Championship) is the leading event that is sanctioned by the European Tour only. The four major championships and the three individual World Golf Championships events are co-sanctioned by the European Tour and have higher ranking point allocations than the BMW PGA Championship.
3. The Japan Open is the leading event that is sanctioned by the Japanese Tour only. The four major championships and the three individual World Golf Championships events are co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour and have higher ranking point allocations than the Japan Open
4. The Volvo Masters of Asia is the Asian Tour championship and is designated as the tour's premier event for ranking purposes, but the tour's richest sole sanctioned event, the Singapore Open, and several events that are co-sanctioned with the European Tour, offer more ranking points based on strength of field co-efficient.
5. Official World Golf Ranking - Top Tens, ''Golf Today'' February 4 2007
See also
★ Chronological list of World Number One male golfers
★ Women's World Golf Rankings - for female professional golfers
★ World Amateur Golf Rankings - for male amateur golfers
External links
★ Official World Golf Rankings website (includes archive of weekly ranking lists of Top-200 from 1987 on)
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