The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) is very complicated to explain to people, but here’s a synopsis. It’s based over a two year system, and the current year outweighs the previous year. So to give a broad example, if you finished 21st in all your tournaments last year, and 1st in all your tournaments last year, clearly you are going to move up. Obviously if you did the reverse, you will move down.
Golf isn’t that simple, however, and the reason why Tiger Woods has been able to stay at world’s #1 for so long in 2010 is a combination of how good his 2009 was and how poor Phil Mickelson has played since Augusta.
He’s played so bad since Augusta that now Lee Westwood has a chance to overtake both Tiger and Phil and become world #1. It’s complicated, but the full details are in this article, so if you’re interested, take a look.
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