The Official World Golf Rankings – shortened to OWGR – is a system used to rate the performance levels of male professional golfers.
24 golf tours are part of the system. From the Big Easy Tour to the Abema TV Tour, then there’s the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour. The OWGR recognises several tours of a wide variety.
How are the Golf World Rankings calculated?
Let’s start by making this very basic. If you compete in a tournament that is eligible for world ranking points, you can gain world ranking points.
Ranking points are decided by each tournament’s field rating. The OWGR system uses rolling ranking periods. Points are kept at full value for 13 weeks from the relevant ranking date. This is to emphasise recent performances.
Points are then reduced in equal decrements for the remaining 91 weeks of the relevant ranking period. Each player is ranked according to their average points during the relevant ranking period.
This is determined by dividing a player’s total points by the amount of tournaments they’ve played in the ranking period. There is a minimum of 40 tournaments in a ranking period, with nothing more than 52 tournaments a player might’ve played in during the relevant ranking period counting to a player’s spot in the OWGR.
