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Before the start of the Official World Golf Ranking in 1986, unofficial end of year world golf rankings were published by Mark McCormack in his World of Professional Golf annual from 1968 to 1985. McCormack's rankings listed Jack Nicklaus as the number one from 1968 to 1977, Tom Watson from 1978 to 1982 and Seve Ballesteros from 1983 to 1985.
The initiative for the creation of the Official World Golf Ranking came from the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which found in the 1980s that its system of issuing invitations to The Open Championship on a tour by tour basis was omitting an increasing number of top players because more of them were dividing their time between tours, and from preeminent ...
As of 2 Febuary 2025, 120 players have reached the world top 10 since the rankings started in April 1986. [3] [4] 25 of these have reached number 1 while a further 16 have reached number 2 but never number 1. Tiger Woods was in the top 10 for 906 weeks. He was number 1 for 683 weeks, number 2 for 107 weeks and number 3 for 27 weeks.
The McCormack rankings were unofficial world golf rankings published in Mark McCormack's World of Professional Golf Annual from 1968 to 1985, and were a forerunner of the current Official World Golf Ranking. Unlike their replacement they were not used to select fields for tournaments, and served no real purpose other than as a talking point.
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List of male golfers who have been in the world top 10; List of world number one male golfers; O. ... Women's World Golf Rankings ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
1 Golfers who have won a major championship or Olympic medal. 2 Golfers with the most wins on a professional golf tour. ... List of world number one male golfers;
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