Re: Golf thread : Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:23 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

If it's anything like tennis and snooker, isn't the ranking score calculated based on results over a set period, e.g. the last two years?

Let's say in November 2008 Woods won a massive tournament which gave him a ton of ranking points. Once the second anniversary of that tournament passes, those points drop off his ranking score. Unless he wins an equally big tournament in the meantime, his score will therefore go down.

Let's say Westwood played in the same tournament and missed the cut. He'd lose no ranking points when that tournament falls off his ranking score, and as a result might end up above Woods once Tiger has lost all the points he won in it.

So it's not so much a case of Westwood doing something to overtake Woods, as Woods score falling as a result of not replacing the points he loses.

You are probably right TBH, I guess Woods is usually that far ahead that we never notice normally!

Anyway I think if Kaymer wins the Andalucia masters before the end of the month(hes just decided to play in it) he will go top anyway!

Re: Golf thread : Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:25 pm  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

Just a quick aside but does anyone else think that the standard of golf and the standard of the top players is as good, if not better, than at any time in recent years?

Hard to judge - course design and equipment is continually evolving so it's difficult to compare even those of relatively recent eras (Watson, Faldo etc) to current players.

Re: Golf thread : Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:57 am  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

Just a quick aside but does anyone else think that the standard of golf and the standard of the top players is as good, if not better, than at any time in recent years?

As Andy said, difficult to tell. However, I'll tell you something, the past few weeks I've enjoyed watching the European Tour more than I have the PGA Tour. Watched the links tournament and it was fantastic. Compared to the McGladrey Classic finale last night, that was pretty poor in comparison.

Re: Golf thread : Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:56 am  

Martin Kaymer wins the race to Dubai, but the Dubai world championship is still going on and looks like Poulter may win it