Key changes announced to world ranking system – Golf News

Two vital adjustments to the Official World Golf Rating system which is able to have an effect on event 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 proportion of rating factors to the highest finishers. At the moment, 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 sector.

This can have a big impression 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, nonetheless, won’t apply to end-of-season occasions, such because the FedExCup Play Offs or DP World Tour Championship, the place eligibility is predicated on performances over a complete 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 at the moment scheduled on the PGA Tour or DP World Tour in 2024, this modification will no have impact within the fast 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 enhance, whereas those that win three or extra instances will obtain a 70% bonus. This alteration is over a rolling year-long interval, so gamers who’ve received in 2023 will be capable to declare the factors enhance 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 taking part 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.”