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.

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?

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?