OWGR Week 33

Here's a quickie after Wyndham Championship...   No change in top-10

1 - 13.8679 - Tiger Woods
2 - 8.6065 - Phil Mickelson
3 - 8.4358 - Rory McIlroy
4 - 7.9307 - Adam Scott
5 - 7.4448 - Justin Rose
6 - 6.7106 - Matt Kuchar
7 - 6.4221 - Brandt Snedeker
8 - 6.0154 - Jason Dufner
9 - 5.9397 - Graeme McDowell
10 - 5.7753 - Henrik Stenson
11 - 5.2571 - Luke Donald
12 - 5.0823 - Keegan Bradley
13 - 4.9987 - Steve Stricker
14 - 4.9563 - Lee Westwood
15 - 4.5909 - Ian Poulter
16 - 4.5721 - Ernie Els
17 - 4.5671 - Charl Schwartzel
18 - 4.5662 - Jason Day
19 - 4.4945 - Jim Furyk
20 - 4.4864 - Sergio Garcia
21 - 4.4610 - Louis Oosthuizen
22 - 4.3121 - Dustin Johnson
23 - 4.2343 - Bubba Watson
24 - 4.1762 - Zach Johnson - Up from 25.... :-)
25 - 4.0983 - Bill Haas
26 - 4.0304 - Webb Simpson
27 - 3.8821 - Hunter Mahan
28 - 3.3044 - Matteo Manassero
29 - 3.2578 - Hideki Matsuyama
30 - 3.1793 - Peter Hanson
31 - 3.1722 - Branden Grace
32 - 3.0921 - Bo Van Pelt
33 - 3.0914 - Nick Watney
34 - 3.0084 - Rickie Fowler
35 - 2.9955 - Richard Sterne
36 - 2.9876 - Jordan Spieth - Up from 54
37 - 2.9816 - Martin Kaymer
38 - 2.9606 - Jonas Blixt
39 - 2.8451 - Scott Piercy
40 - 2.8327 - Kevin Streelman
41 - 2.8245 - Jamie Donaldson
42 - 2.7855 - Francesco Molinari
43 - 2.7842 - Billy Horschel
44 - 2.6189 - Thorbjorn Olesen
45 - 2.5730 - Ryan Moore
46 - 2.5411 - Angel Cabrera
47 - 2.5227 - Nicolas Colsaerts
48 - 2.4892 - Gonzalo Fdez-Castano
49 - 2.4522 - Boo Weekley
50 - 2.4264 - Robert Garrigus
51 - 2.3896 - Michael Thompson
52 - 2.3822 - David Lynn
53 - 2.3773 - Miguel A Jimenez
54 - 2.3437 - Martin Laird
55 - 2.3303 - Tim Clark
56 - 2.2820 - D.A. Points
57 - 2.2456 - Carl Pettersson
58 - 2.2380 - Thongchai Jaidee
59 - 2.2167 - Thomas Bjorn
60 - 2.2031 - Paul Lawrie
61 - 2.1887 - Bernd Wiesberger
62 - 2.1801 - Russell Henley
63 - 2.1585 - Marc Leishman
64 - 2.1438 - Patrick Reed -  Up from 169
65 - 2.1379 - Chris Wood
66 - 2.1102 - Marcel Siem
67 - 2.0980 - Mikko Ilonen
68 - 2.0963 - Jimmy Walker
69 - 2.0418 - Alexander Noren
70 - 2.0355 - Fredrik Jacobson
71 - 2.0092 - Harris English
72 - 2.0020 - Kyle Stanley
73 - 1.9813 - George Coetzee
74 - 1.9691 - Stephen Gallacher
75 - 1.9458 - Luke Guthrie
76 - 1.9420 - Graham Delaet
77 - 1.9050 - Ken Duke
78 - 1.8951 - Scott Stallings
79 - 1.8938 - Kiradech Aphibarnrat
80 - 1.8863 - David Lingmerth
81 - 1.8646 - John Merrick
82 - 1.8644 - Shane Lowry
83 - 1.8469 - John Huh
84 - 1.8442 - Ryan Palmer
85 - 1.8311 - Padraig Harrington
86 - 1.8121 - Charles Howell-III
87 - 1.8103 - Brendon de Jonge
88 - 1.8075 - Joost Luiten
89 - 1.7872 - Brett Rumford
90 - 1.7821 - Geoff Ogilvy
91 - 1.7759 - David Toms
92 - 1.7572 - Marcus Fraser
93 - 1.7453 - Hiroyuki Fujita
94 - 1.7400 - John Senden
95 - 1.6945 - Paul Casey
96 - 1.6942 - Chris Kirk
97 - 1.6726 - Bae Sang-moon
98 - 1.6590 - Charley Hoffman
99 - 1.6344 - Marc Warren
100 - 1.6288 - Rafael Cabrera Bello

Would think this week will mark the start of many rivalries between Spieth and Patrick Reed - Spieth obviously the darling of the media but will Couples pick him for Muirfield Village?
There are going to be some surprising omissions from this year's Pres Cup Team and I wouldn't be surprised if Fred just ignored all the Furyk/Stricker/Simpson/Dustin/Bubba claims and picked two of Horschel/Reed/Spieth unless someone else makes a compelling claim this coming fortnight.

Not a great field at Gleneagles but five of this top 61 should be there, hopefully more than 24 points to the winner, perhaps about 32?

Thanks robo . . . .

kwinigolfer wrote:Would think this week will mark the start of many rivalries between Spieth and Patrick Reed - Spieth obviously the darling of the media but will Couples pick him for Muirfield Village?
There are going to be some surprising omissions from this year's Pres Cup Team and I wouldn't be surprised if Fred just ignored all the Furyk/Stricker/Simpson/Dustin/Bubba claims and picked two of Horschel/Reed/Spieth unless someone else makes a compelling claim this coming fortnight.

Not a great field at Gleneagles but five of this top 61 should be there, hopefully more than 24 points to the winner, perhaps about 32?

Quick look...  I think Gleneagles will be 7 players inside the top-61... but still not enough to raise it out of the minimum 24.  Pprobably will score about a 22 (low 80's ERV range)

As for Freddie and Prez Cup...  Yeah.. there might be some surprising omissions... just because it's a numbers game and some "names" are gonna get left off... no other way around it. And I'd like to see some thinking out of the box too.. but not expecting it.  Biggest mystery might be trying to figure out what major announcement the USGA has in store for Prez Cup week... :-)

Spieth and Reed... definite solids... both of them.    Obviously the boys have skills.... but it's the "intangibles" about them that impress  me. Spieth is kinda inconsistent... but on the weeks he has it... he doesn't back down when in contention.  When in relative contention going into Sunday, Spieth has backed up only once.... but the other 6 or 7 times he had very solid final rounds.  And he didn't lose yesterday... just got beat by another resilient young player.

Best line of the week on Reed from Peter Alliss:
@TweeterAlliss
Well done young Patrick Reid, rumours are his caddy is on the highest percentage on tour. Splendid.

Maybe soon enough Peter will learn how to spell his name.... :-)

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Non-PGAT members qualifying for Web.com playoffs (from Euro Tour - Equivalent to member #200 or better on FedEx list - 92 pts):

Fdez-Castano 403, Olesen 307, Sterne 276, F Molinari 244, Jimenez 277, Siem 221, Lowry 188, Paul Lawrie 184, Donaldson 164, Wood 145, Cabrera-Bello 143, Coetzee 135, Manassero 128, Grace 126, Gallacher 120, Noren 97, Fraser 93.
Those in bold above show to be entered in Wales... same week as 1st Web.com playoff event.

Other non-ET members eligible include: Peter Tomasulo 186, John Peterson 128, Jeff Klauk 115, Patrick Cantlay 96,

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Via his 15th place finish at Greensboro, Hideki Matsuyama earned enough non-member money to be equivalent to #118 on the money list and thus has earned 2013 PGAT membership (if he accepts as expected).  Technically the qualifying money list is not over, it continues through the playoffs... but there are only 4 player outside the top-125 in money in the FedEx playoffs who can earn official money and potentially move ahead of Matsuyama  (Reavie, Langly, Appleby, McNeill)... so at worst Hideki would finish equiv. to #122... good enough.

CORRECTION:  I was incorrect on the strike out portion above. As per the PGA Tour, while there is still more official money to be won, for purposes of securing a card for next season the money list was final as of yesterday.  So Hideki Matsuyama has earned equivalent to #118 and it will stay that way... Also Peter Hanson who is #124 on the money list is safe for next season too.  Even if 2 of the 4 players mentioned above were to pass Hanson in final official money via earnings in the playoffs... it doesn't matter.... Hanson has his card.

Interesting that the FE top 125 cutoff was higher this year than either of the last two years. And with one less tournament (Mayakorba)

GPB wrote:Interesting that the FE top 125 cutoff was higher this year than either of the last two years.  And with one less tournament (Mayakorba)

My guess is just randomness of the point distribution throughout the list... But the 2013 total FE points earned by the top-25 was down 441 points compared to last year, which might could be explained by the missing alternate event?  And the total for 2012 vs 2013 only varies by less than 1/2 a percent.

But then again... 2013 total for top-125 is still about 2000 point higher than 2011, and with 1 less event than 2011.

There are some players having poor years, and who may not progress far in the Play-Offs or have missed them, who will slide pretty quickly with no other Tour events for six weeks at least. Like Van Pelt, for instance, Watney or Rickie Fowler, Colsaerts or Ryan Moore. Augusta not a sure thing for any of them unless they can stop their slide in the autumn.

Fowler is 40 in the fedex standings.

He will probably play the first two at least.

robo,
Do you know what the owgr structure will be for the web.com Tour Finals? There could be some decent fields!
(See Casey, Olesen, Fisher and Gonzo, among others, are signed up for Wales and/or Crans. Good news for O'Grady, though why Casey is not in this week's field is beyond me, twice a winner at Gleneagles.)

kwinigolfer wrote:robo,
Do you know what the owgr structure will be for the web.com Tour Finals? There could be some decent fields!
(See Casey, Olesen, Fisher and Gonzo, among others, are signed up for Wales and/or Crans. Good news for O'Grady, though why Casey is not in this week's field is beyond me, twice a winner at Gleneagles.)

The first 3 events will receive a minimum of 16 rating (as opposed to the usual 14)... the final will be  considered the flagship event and get 20. And theoretically they could go above these amounts if the Event Rating Values warrant...

 
Thanks

And by the way... OWGR made it official Tuesday that the World Cup will get OWGR points and awarded as per the same method as WGC's (using current OWGR rankings for home ERV's).

For those interested...  9 OWGR counting events this week..

74 - Barclay's - PGA Tour - (missing Zachster and Stricks keeps if out of 76 category)

All the rest are at the Tour Minimums

24 - Johnnie Walker - Euro Tour (84 ERV, would have been 22 without the minimum)
16 - Kansai Open - Japan Tour
14 - Cox Classic - Web.com Tour
12 - Rolex Trophy - Challenge Tour
6 - Great Waterway Classic - PGA Tour of Canada
6 - Isuzu Queensland Open - Australasian Tour
6 - Vodacom - Sunshine Winter Series
6 - PGM Terengganu Masters - Asian Development Tour

Crying shame (especially on you O'Grady) that Gleneagles has to be subsidised, but at least Weisberger, Lawrie, Rumford, Thongchai and Frannie are in the shake-up, so far anyway, and Olesen and Gallacher not too far behind.

Hoping for better next week with the first event of the 2014 Ryder Cup qualifying season - at the DeutscheBank also, of course.

Ha,
A new #2?? Must be close.

And has De Laet overtaken Tim Clark (and Thongchai) in the Pres Cup qualifying table?

Despite Jim Nantz's cheerleading, Jim Furyk still not much nearer Fred Couples' Pres Cup Team.
Tiger, Sneds, Phil, Kooch, Keegs, Duff, Bill Haas, Hunner, Webbgod, Zachgod
Then: Stricker, Dustin, Furyk, Bubba.
The rest: Nowhere.

Kwini: I think Cntl + Alt + Delaet has crashed the top 10 of the Int'l Prez Cup standings. I think he needed about 25 points more than Tim Clark to pass him and he got 28 points for the 4-Way Tie 2nd.

Right now, only one Asian on the team (Matsuyama). I think there will be a lot of political pressure on Price to pick a Korean since the PC is headed there in two years. Not that any of them really deserved to be picked considering the way that they have played this year. Odd-Job is probably first in line.

Of course the other pick is earmarked for Ryo Ishikawa. (Duck and Run)

Have you seen the picture of Delaete on the PGA website? Makes John Terry look like an adonis.

Confirm Scott 2 #2, Delaet into the Top 50, #10 on Pres Cup qualie list, ahead of Tim Clark & Thongchai.

super, none of the pictures are rather flattering.. You get the impression that most PGATour golfers are retards...!....?....

pedro wrote:super, none of the pictures are rather flattering.. You get the impression that most PGATour golfers are retards...!....?....

I get the impression that he thinks all the American ones are.

GPB wrote:

pedro wrote:super, none of the pictures are rather flattering.. You get the impression that most PGATour golfers are retards...!....?....

I get the impression that he thinks all the American ones are.

I like Americans very much having spent a few weeks there last month. However there is no doubt there are a lot of moronic and very stupid American golfers. (Zach Johnson, Webb Simpson, Bubba Watson, Nine Chins,  Ben Crane etc)

Correct though, the PGA pictures do not flatter anyone.

Nine chins actually had the grades to attend Stanford without a golf scholarship.

Pretty ridiculous even for you to list him with the god squad.

Mac, I was referring to his other patently stupid displays. You can be academic but still stupid. Nine Chins interviews and thinking he can get away with pumping lots of gugget women prove he's not too bright