The Current State of the OWGR

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A veteran LIV golfer finished in the top 50 at the Open Championship—and rose over 3,000 places in the OWGR. Maybe something is amiss with the OWGR? In this episode, Mark and Lou discuss the current state of golf rankings: the OWGR and some of its competitors, including the Data Golf rankings. What do we want from a professional golf ranking system? Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Let's talk world rankings. Interesting comment from Lee Westwood in the, I don't know where
0:36.4	it was quoted saying, but it's been flying around
0:38.3	online this week.
0:39.3	Lee Westwood tied 34th at the open.
0:42.1	He skyrocketed 3,759 spots in the world ranking to number 930.
0:49.2	Nice.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:50.7	Because I guess half of those free, most of those 3,759 weren't allowed to play that week because they weren't in the open.
0:58.6	I'm guessing they, that's true.
1:01.0	He called the order of the world ranking system a bit of a mockery of a system.
1:06.1	Without world ranking points, it makes a bit of a mockery of this system.
1:09.9	We either start to get world ranking points on Live or the majors have to revise how they do their qualifying is kind of what he has said. Now, I posted this to my audience on Facebook as well. Believe it or not, let's have a little doubt in facebook is still there if anyone
1:29.1	is wondering yeah i did not know that yeah i did post it on facebook um my mom probably saw it
1:38.1	yeah my mom's on facebook man, it is a bit like that.
1:46.6	I think you can guess what was said.
1:48.7	I'll give you a flavor of what was said.
1:51.9	Ian said, live his glorified exhibition golf.
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