Are Sport Illustrated’s world rankings more accurate?

By Neville Idour

The farcical world golf rankings caused renowned United States magazine Sports Illustrated to come up with its own system of world rankings that takes into account all golfers on all tours, including LIV Golf. Commencing over five months ago, its system shows up the current anomaly caused by excluding LIV players. Some of the factors and calculations they use are:-

* All men’s tours receive points.

* At all no cut events the top 75 percent of finishers receive points.

* It uses the most recent 12 months of results instead of 24 months like the official world golf rankings.

* Most recent four months of results receive 100 percent of points, 5-8 months old receive 70 percent of eligible points, 9-12 months old receive 40 percent of points.

* It factors in strength of field and award bonuses for the majors similar to the OWGR.

Check out their week 21 rankings compiled after the PGA Championships. OWGR rankings are shown on the right.