Two vital adjustments to the Official World Golf Rating system which can have an effect on event winners and the PGA Tour’s ‘elevated’ occasions have been introduced.
Coming into impact on January 1, 2024, the primary change pertains to tournaments with lower than 80 gamers, with the OWGR distributing a larger proportion of rating factors to the highest finishers. Presently, a winner receives round 17-18% of the obtainable factors, with that determine set to extend to 21% in limited-field occasions.
As well as, for limited-field occasions that don’t function a reduce, the OWGR will now not give rating factors to the underside 15 per cent of the sphere.
It will have a major impression on factors awarded to the PGA Tour’s signature occasions in 2024, with all eight tournaments set to function fields of between 70-80 gamers, and with 5 of them not that includes a reduce.
These adjustments, nevertheless, won’t apply to end-of-season occasions, such because the FedExCup Play Offs or DP World Tour Championship, the place eligibility relies on performances over a whole season of full-field occasions.
For matchplay occasions, gamers who lose their first-round match or don’t win any matches of their pool will now not obtain factors only for turning up. Though, with no matchplay occasions at the moment scheduled on the PGA Tour or DP World Tour in 2024, this transformation will no have impact within the speedy future.
The opposite change would be the introduction of a multi-win bonus to reward gamers who win greater than as soon as in a 52-week interval. Two-time winners will get pleasure from a 60% factors increase, whereas those that win three or extra occasions will obtain a 70% bonus. This modification is over a rolling year-long interval, so gamers who’ve gained in 2023 will be capable of declare the factors increase in the event that they win once more in 2024 inside 52 weeks of their earlier win.
OWGR chairman Peter Dawson mentioned: “Based mostly on intensive evaluation following the adjustments applied in August 2022, we recognised these two alternatives to additional improve the OWGR and to precisely consider performances of the world’s collaborating gamers on all eligible Excursions. Changes to the Rating are made after cautious consideration, and we’re assured that these updates will higher place the OWGR for the long run.”
