Key changes announced to world ranking system – Golf News

Two vital adjustments to the Official World Golf Rating system which can have an effect on match winners and the PGA Tour’s ‘elevated’ occasions have been introduced.

Coming into impact on January 1, 2024, the primary change pertains to tournaments with lower than 80 gamers, with the OWGR distributing a higher share of rating factors to the highest finishers. Presently, a winner receives round 17-18% of the accessible factors, with that determine set to extend to 21% in limited-field occasions.

As well as, for limited-field occasions that don’t characteristic a lower, the OWGR will now not give rating factors to the underside 15 per cent of the sphere.

It will have a big influence on factors awarded to the PGA Tour’s signature occasions in 2024, with all eight tournaments set to characteristic fields of between 70-80 gamers, and with 5 of them not that includes a lower.

WHAT TOURNAMENTS ARE EXEMPT

These adjustments, nevertheless, is not going to apply to end-of-season occasions, such because the FedExCup Play Offs or DP World Tour Championship, the place eligibility relies on performances over a whole season of full-field occasions.

For matchplay occasions, gamers who lose their first-round match or don’t win any matches of their pool will now not obtain factors only for turning up. Though, with no matchplay occasions presently scheduled on the PGA Tour or DP World Tour in 2024, this transformation will no have impact within the quick future.

The opposite change would be the introduction of a multi-win bonus to reward gamers who win greater than as soon as in a 52-week interval. Two-time winners will take pleasure in a 60% factors increase, whereas those that win three or extra occasions will obtain a 70% bonus. This transformation is over a rolling year-long interval, so gamers who’ve gained in 2023 will be capable of declare the factors increase in the event that they win once more in 2024 inside 52 weeks of their earlier win.

OWGR chairman Peter Dawson stated: “Based mostly on intensive evaluation following the adjustments carried out in August 2022, we recognised these two alternatives to additional improve the OWGR and to precisely consider performances of the world’s collaborating gamers on all eligible Excursions. Changes to the Rating are made after cautious consideration, and we’re assured that these updates will higher place the OWGR for the longer term.”