b0809lukeIt's time for our own golf ranking system for the top players on the planet. Why? That's easy. The one used now isn't good enough. For one thing, it evaluates golfers over a two-year period. Two years! A lot can happen in two years. (Ask Tiger Woods.) For another, the current system gives too much credit to players who prevail against less competitive fields halfway across the globe.
Therefore, every week between May 31 and September 27, two days after The Tour Championship, Yahoo! Sports will unveil the new rankings of players Nos. 1 to 10, using lists submitted by many of the game's most knowledgeable observers. We will use a simple statistical formula for the lists we receive — the top player getting 10 points, the second, nine points, and so forth. We will then add up all the points to produce our list of the top 10.
1. Luke Donald (19 first-place votes), 278 points, Last week: 1
2. Rory McIlroy (11 first-place votes), 272 points, Last week: 2
3. Lee Westwood, 211 points, Last week: 3
4. Steve Stricker, 159 points, Last week: 4
5. Adam Scott, 127 points, Last week: NR
6. Jason Day, 120 points, Last week: 10
7. Martin Kaymer, 111 points, Last week: 5
8. Phil Mickelson, 90 points, Last week: 6
9. Charl Schwartzel, 65 points, Last week: 7
10. Nick Watney, 61 points, Last week: 9
Dropping out of the rankings: Dustin Johnson
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Voters
Michael Arkush, Yahoo! Sports
Shane Bacon, Yahoo! Sports
Al Barkow, golf historian, journalist
Jay Busbee, Yahoo! Sports
Jay Coffin, Golfchannel.com
Tom Cunneff, Links magazine
Martin Davis, Editor, American Golfer
John Feinstein, Golf World/Golf Channel contributor
Bill Fields, Golf World
David Graham, two-time major champion
Melanie Hauser, contributor, PGATOUR.com
Ryan Herrington, Golf World
John Huggan, Golf Digest
Sal Johnson, GolfObserver.com
Rees Jones, golf course architect
Peter Kessler, Making the Turn radio talk-show host
Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Lamport-Stokes, Reuters
David MacKintosh, Buenos Aires Herald
Andrew Magee, PGA Tour veteran
Scott Michaux, Augusta Chronicle
Brian Murphy, Yahoo! Sports
Jerry Pate, former U.S. Open winner
Geoff Russell, Golf World editor
Stina Sternberg, Golf Digest
John Strege, Golf Digest
Jerry Tarde, Golf Digest editor
Kris Tschetter, LPGA Tour veteran, author
Jonathan Wall, Yahoo! Sports
Sam Weinman, Golf Digest.com
