OK, so you’ve probably wondered, why the big swings in the
rankings with some of the women, and the lower ranked men?
Well, when a lower ranked player does extremely well in an
event, that gives her a lot more points, and only one more
tournament to average in, so their ranking points go up by
a large percentage. Now you take someone like Niloofar
Mossarrahmani, a fine player from Sweden, but someone who
hasn’t played in as many A-Tier and above events as say,
Des Reading, well, one good result (such as her recent second
place finish in Skelleftea this past weekend) will move her up
in ranking points an even higher percentage.
At the top of the grid, Angela Tschiggfrie and
Val Jenkins will have to work a lot harder to topple Des
Reading from the #1 ranking. And that’s the way it should
be….players in our ranking system get rewarded not only for
playing well in big tournaments, but you get rewarded more
for playing well in LOTS of big tournaments. And although
both Val and Angela have beaten Des at times, and can do
so on any given weekend, Des has been clearly the best
over the last 4 years or so in the overall scheme of things.
Anyway, notable changes recently:
#2 spot on the mens’ side, and Ken Climo is definitely within
striking distance. A strong finish in Pittsburgh this weekend,
coupled with an NT win for Nate at Columbus might give him
the #1 ranking going into the Worlds. David Feldberg is
within striking distance of #1 as well.
#4 spot. Steve hasn’t traveled outside the Pacific Time Zone
this year, and although he’s generally done well, hasn’t done
well often enough to hold off Avery from the #4 spot.
There’s been a couple of injuries recently to top players:
Kansas City Wide Open. He shut his tournament down 3 holes
into the final round. Looks like it was just a precautionary
move on Barry’s part….all indications are that he’ll be
healthy and ready to compete at Worlds in 3 weeks.
in Toronto last weekend. He had to miss the Skylands Classic
on his home course in Warwick, NY. No word on the severity
of his injury, but hopefully he’ll be back in time for Worlds.
DGLO, but has been able to play through it, carding 3rd at
the DGLO, 4th in Kansas City and Toronto, and 5th Place
at Warwick last week.
Player to watch: Kyle Crabtree has made the
biggest move in the last 3 weeks, vaulting from #48 to #19.
Chap
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1 response so far ↓
1 Crabbylawyer // Aug 2, 2007 at 3:56 pm
You go Kyle Crabtree!…..we’re watching you all the way from California!!!!
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