This weeks change in the World Golf Rankings made me do a double take.
Considering Koepka passed DJ in the rankings when DJ has twice as many PGA wins (8) in two years as Keopka (4) has in his PGA career. I needed a reminder on the ranking system.
- Justin Rose
- Brooks Koepka
- Dustin Johnson
- Justin Thomas
- Rory McIlroy
- Francisco Molinari
Wins since September 2016 a 2 year span, then list wins in last year.
- Justin Rose- 4 WINS: (2018) 1 PGA Win, (2017) 1 PGA Win 2 European Wins
- Brooks Koepka- 4 WINS: (2018) 2 PGA Majors, (2017) 1 PGA Major, 1 Japanese Win
- Dustin Johnson - 7 WINS: (2018) 3 PGA Wins (2017) 4 PGA Wins (Sept 11,2016) 1 PGA Win (Last win rolled off this week.)
- Justin Thomas - 8 WINS (2018) 2 PGA Wins (2017) 5 PGA Wins 1 Major (2016 after Oct) 2 PGA Wins.
Confusing?
- The rankings use two years of results.
- They earns points based on how high you finish in a tournament.
- If a tournament field is strong, total points rise and lower for weaker field.
- The points a player earns in a tournament are counted, in full, for 13 weeks.Then the value decreases by about 1.09 percent per week for the remaining 91 weeks, diminishing gradually until the 105th week
- Each player's total points are added, divided by his total events played,
Starts seemed to be a major factor or so I thought.. Wrong, maybe for Thomas.
Starts and Avg Pts earned.
- Justin Rose 44 10.24
- Brooks Koepka 42 10.2
- Dustin Johnson 44 10.13
- Justin Thomas 49 9.57
- Rory McIlroy 42 7.29
- Francesco Molinari 50 7.2.6
I don't want to say the majors are overrated, but............
For the record, during 2018 the most points gained looks much different.
1. Bryson Dechambeau 342.29
2. Dustin Johnson 310.57
3. Brooks Koepka 295.57
4. Justin Thomas 293.78
5. Franesco Molinari 291.78
6. Justin Rose 285.46
7. Rory 269.57
1 comment:
I'm glad you explained it.
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