Tiger Woods jumped up 430 places in the Official World Golf Rankings after his PGA Tour return at the Hero World Challenge.
After playing his first competitive 72-hole round of golf in seven months, Tiger Woods shot up the Official World Golf Rankings.
Over the weekend, Woods, 47, placed 18th out of 20 players in his own PGA Tour event held in the Bahamas.
After his exploits in Albany, he surged up a massive 430 spots in the rankings, where he had fallen to an all-time career low of 1,328th.
Each competitor at the Hero World Challenge was there at the 15-time major champion’s invitation.
Scottie Scheffler emerged as the champion to mark his first victory since the 2023 Players.
A fresh debate emerged about the validity of the OWGR after the American earned 30 world ranking points for the win in what is considered an exhibition event in golf’s ‘silly season’.
Golf fans used Joaquin Niemann of LIV Golf, who won the Australian Open, receiving just 14.8 points as an example of the “unfairness.”
Just 12.5 points were awarded to Dean Burmester, a fellow LIV player, for winning the co-sanctioned South Africa Open on the DP World Tour.
It was also noted that even though Alex Fitzpatrick finished T-8 at the Australian Open, Will Zalatoris, who, like Tiger, played his first round of competitive golf after suffering a back injury at the 47th Masters, earned more points for finishing dead last in Woods’ event.
Fitzpatrick was required to make a cut and score 1.8 ranking points with rounds of 68-66-66-74.
With scores of 81-68-79-71, a shaky Zalatoris earned 2.1 ranking points.
One LIV fan commented on X, saying, “Just an example of the absurdity of the system.”
“If you want to move on from the OWGR, why do you keep demanding points?” inquired a different fan.
On October 10, LIV Golf’s application for OWGR accreditation was formally rejected.
The rival league’s application was denied by the governing body due to issues with the circuit’s structure.
The 54-hole, no-cut events for 48 players, as well as players’ restricted access to the venture, are problems, according to OWGR chairman Peter Dawson.
In a letter to Greg Norman and Gary Davidson, the chief operating officer of LIV, Dawson stated, “Simply put, the board committee does not believe it is equitable to thousands of players who strive every day to get starts in OWGR eligible tournaments to have a tour operate in this mostly closed fashion.”
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