Tiger Woods detonates the Golfer Supremacy Rankings yet again
Sitting around the cooler here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings, the conversation normally works its way around to blowing things up. Like how Tiger Woods blew up the field with his driver in the bag. Or how Nike is likely prepared to blow up the image of a young golfer named Jenny Shin. Or how no one, and we mean no one, is going to blow up Byron Nelson. Not when a Texan is President, at least.
Golfer Supremacy Rankings
1. Tiger Woods
Comments: Was there any doubt that Tiger would bounce back with an exceptional performance at the British Open? Well, actually there was, and quite a bit of it. Sure Woods didn’t wow them with prodigious drives, but weren’t people just whining that long drives were ruining the game?
His performance showed once again why he’s the best there is at this game – he went to Royal Liverpool and tamed the best in the game with his 2-iron. Maybe he was a bit of a spazz at the end, but it seems Tiger’s come through a dark time as a more well-rounded person, which will likely spell doom for Jack Nicklaus’s all-time majors record, which Tiger should pass well before he turns 40 at his current pace.
2. Jenny Shin
Comments:
With a mature display of golf, 13-year-old Jenny Shin beat Vicky Hurst in 37 holes to become the second-youngest winner in the 58-year history of the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship.
“After I got the trophy, I was like, ‘This is mine?’” said Shin.
Ranked No. 27 among junior girls by Golfweek, due to the complicated algebraic equations involved, Shin will enter the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings this week as the No. 3 women’s golfer in the world, trailing Michelle Wie by just a few points, due to being penalized for actually winning something.
3. The Dude who decided to detonate a package of Masters banners at Byron Nelson’s place
Comments: A suspicious package left on the doorstep of a 94-year-old golf legend? Here’s a hint: It’s not a bomb. You don’t blow people up when “just waiting” is a viable alternative. But, then again, maybe Texas was having a slow detonation day.
Random factoid: Reportedly, John Rollins won the B.C. Open over the weekend, pocketing $540,000. It’s reportedly because no one – not even legendary upstate New York homer Ron Mon – saw this take place. You’ll just have to take the PGA’s word for it.
–WKW
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Jenny Shin gets no ranking points for winning the amateur title.
There are no points for winning amateurs, only for winning professional events.
Amateurs can gain points if they play in professional events, for their performance in the professional events, but winning amateur titles gives no ranking points.
Also you said:
"With a mature display of golf, 13-year-old Jenny Shin beat Vicky Hurst in 37 holes to become the second-youngest winner in the 58-year history of the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship.".
That was a JUNIOR event. A great achievment nonetheless, but you may like to note that at 13 years of age Michelle Wie won an ADULT usga title.
She was the youngest person ever to win an ADULT usga title, but then again, as a Wie basher you might like to ignore that.
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07/25/06 @ 09:51 Use as an example Chris DiMarco. With his 2nd place at the Open Championship, he moved from 26 to 13 in the rankings.
Where would his ranking go, if he could put in top 5's in 5 of 6 majors. Very high would be a good guess.
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07/25/06 @ 09:53 Permalink
07/25/06 @ 10:26 Although Michelle Wie is an exceptional female golfer, I can't see how she can be so high in the rankings.
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07/25/06 @ 11:11 Permalink
07/25/06 @ 11:23 Jim--Let's be fair. I am no Morgan Pressel fan, but she did WIN the U.S. Women's Amateur last year, something the great Michelle Wie was unable to accomplish in her less than distinguished amateur career. Has Michelle performed better as a pro, yes, no question, but as an amateur Morgan had the far more impressive career.
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07/25/06 @ 13:48 Even if Jenny Shin put in 14 top 5 finishes in 14 out of 14 LPGA events including the 4 majors, SHE WOULD NOT GET A ROLEX RANKING. Can we guess why?
In order to qualify for a ranking, she would have to have played in a minimum of 15 tournaments that the Rolex Rankings recognizes within a 2 year period. She would however get points.
Now Amateur players can qualify to be ranked, however Amateur tournaments count for jack squat... ZERO for those of you who are doing the math.
Now if you can stay with me, the reason why Michelle Wie can have such a high ranking is all due to the math. Ranking systems are based on math. One would think that statement is obvious, but obviously not.
The number of points you get for a tournament is determined by how you finished in the tournament and the strength of the field, ie. how many top 200 Rolex Ranked players are playing in the tournament. The older the tournament is, the less points you get for it, with the exception of the 4 majors and the Future's Tour, which all have fixed points that do not change.
Wie is able to have such a high ranking, because majors make a big proportion of her events and she finishes well in them. So when she finishes T3 at the 2005 British Open, it will eventually count for a lot more next year than Paula Creamer's 2005 Evian win, since the Evian Masters isn't a major or a Future's tour event.
Now the ranking is also determined by the number of qualifying tournaments the player has played in for that ranking period. The PGA rankings are calculated in a similiar way, except their minimum is 40 not 15.
Yes there are flaws to the system obviously, but now when people say "I can't see how she can be so high in the rankings." it's because you know they didn't do the math.
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