Scottie Scheffler breaks Tiger Woods’ OWGR record in six months

NEW YORK – Is world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler on track to have a better season than Tiger Woods’ epic 2000 campaign? Yes, if you rely on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).

The 28-year-old has now reached 583 world rankings points through the first six months of 2024, destroying Woods’ record of 532 from the first six months of 2000.

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Scheffler has six victories so far this season, all at prestigious tournaments: the Players Championship, the Masters (his second title) and four of the PGA Tour’s signature events.

Conversely, when Woods won nine PGA Tour events in 2000, he had five in the bag by the end of June: the Mercedes Championship, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the Bay Hill Invitational, the Memorial and the US Open.

Scheffler also did himself a favor by winning against extremely talented players, as the OWGR system rates tournament fields as part of its ranking algorithm.

However, there is a “downside,” as CBS Sports noted that “golfers in 2024 are simply taller and better than they were in 2000, when Tiger was destroying worlds, and there were no signature events when Woods played that required or encouraged player participation.” all the best players”.

The comparison could be argued for weeks and months, but the fact is that Scheffler has amassed 810.78375 points across 46 events in the current ranking period. That’s almost double what world No. 2 Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland earned in the same period: 428.34583 over 46 events.

That said, the American – who has had an eventful year so far with the birth of his son and a trip to jail due to a traffic misunderstanding before the second round of the PGA Championship – still has a long way to go to some of the Woods’ other records.

Since reaching world No. 1 in March 2022, he has held the world rankings for 93 consecutive weeks, but Woods remained at the top spot for a record 281 weeks between 2005 and 2010, breaking his own record of 264 consecutive weeks from 1999 broke. -2004.

However, the OWGR has received criticism from LIV golfers in recent years because LIV events did not meet the criteria to receive world ranking points.

This means that the top players from the Saudi-backed circuit, including Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, are not included in any comparison. REUTERS