Golf: Major debate over rankings

Rankings success of two Englishmen Lee Westwood and Luke Donald has prompted some critics to pour scorn on the system.

ICHEON: When is the top-ranked golfer in the world not the best player in the world? When he has not won a Major.

Since the fallout from a sex scandal ended Tiger Woods’s record-breaking 281-week stint at the head of the rankings last year, a tussle has been under way for the top spot.

Current number one Lee Westwood and Germany’s Martin Kaymer have both been number one and if Westwood’s fellow Englishman Luke Donald wins the US PGA Zurich Classic in New Orleans he has a good chance of overtaking them both. But the rankings success of the two Englishmen has prompted some critics to pour scorn on the system - because neither has won one of the four Major championships.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 1^st, 2011.