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by Doug Thews.
Original Post: Mickelson Wins 1st Major Championship!
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My Dad & I have been going back and forth about the current World Golf rankings, and this just seals it for me. Tiger comes nowhere near the lead and is now 0 for his last 7 Major championships (and by all expert accounts is actually regressing - yes, getting worse). Yet, he's still considered the #1 ranked golfer in the world - but it's only because golf uses a 3 year window for counting stats & wins. Hell, why not go back a ways and count Jack Nicklaus' green jacket in 1986 while we're at it? Maybe he's in the top 10??? Ridiculous!!!!
There are so many golfers that have been playing MUCH BETTER than Tiger over the past year. When you think of the world's best golfer, you're not thinking of the last decade, or even of the past 5 or 3 years. It's right now!
So, this week in my spare time I'm going to come up with a fair & equitable world golf ranking system that doesn't HOSE golfers like Mike Weir, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Kenny Perry (he won 3 times last year - Tiger didn't), and a host of others. And my major piece of logic for this formula is that a golfer who has 2 wins (including a Major) and 7 top-10 finishes by the time the Masters is completed, should be ranked higher than Tiger Woods in a ranking system that is supposed to show the CURRENT rank of golfers on tour, and not how they've done over the past 3 or 5 years.
I can tell you that I'll use a 1 year rolling window so that wins throughout the year count, but as the wins roll toward the end of the window, they'll end up counting a tad less (maybe 90% of a wins value within the past 2-3 months). I'll also provide a multiplier for Major championships so that they end up counting a little more than regular PGA tour victories.
Hopefully I'll have more by the end of next weekend. Until then (when my rankings & formula come out), I'm counting Phil Mickelson as the world's #1 golfer right now based on his 2 wins (including The Masters), and his 7 top-10 finishes this year alone. We'll see how it works out.
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