Golf World Rankings of Indians

[BSharma]

Since there was some discussion in the 2005 PGA Tour thread about the rankings of Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods, I am posting the official rankings that came out after the FBR Open concluded on Sunday. The points gained or lost are not for last week but for 2003/04 (lost) and 2005 (gained).

Rank; Player; Pt.s Avg.; Tot. Pts.; # of Evts.; Pts. Lost 2003/04; Pts. Gained 2005

1 Vijay Singh, Fij 12.51 750.69 60 -97.11 80.19
2 Tiger Woods, USA 11.82 496.60 42 -44.29 76.90
3 Ernie Els, SAf 10.83 573.76 53 -82.34 74.13
4 Phil Mickelson, USA 7.44 357.06 48 -45.25 66.21
5 Retief Goosen, SAf 6.76 351.29 52 -50.35 5.49
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110 Jyoti Randhawa
180 Daniel Chopra
204 Dinesh Chand
272 Arjun Atwal
358 Jeev M Singh
420 Amandeep Johl
534 Rahil Gangjee
740 Harmeet Kahlon
820 Gaurav Ghei

[BSharma]

Vijay hangs on to the #1 ranking over Tiger Woods by a razor thin margin (11.97 to 11.85). Tiger can topple Vijay from his throne this week.

Daniel moves up to 172 and Arjun Atwal is now ranked 251.

[ajay]

Vijay hangs on to the #1 ranking over Tiger Woods by a razor thin margin (11.97 to 11.85). Tiger can topple Vijay from his throne this week.

As Vijay is taaking off this week, Tiger just need to finish in top 4 to become #1. A very real possibility. And Tiger may be motivated to regain the top spot. Lets watch out.
Hopefully, after a week rest (or practice ) and ironing out whatever problems may have crept in his game, Vijay will come back strongly in WGC match play next week.

[ajay]

Thongchai Jaidee, who was ranked 90 last weeks, jumps to 58 after the win at Carlsberg Open in Malaysia. If this tournament had been a week earlier, Jaidee would have qualified for WGC playoff this week. Jaidee's goal is to get invitation to Masters in April by getting in top 50 soon.

Jyoti ranking is still not out, but he is now in similar position, actually little better, as Jaidee was last week. Can he also do a Jaidee and get invitation to Masters. That would be an unbelievable feat.

[ajay]

OK, the ranking is out. Jyoti is now ranked 81 in the world!!
WOW!!! Incredible!!

This is his best ranking in his carrer. So he breaks his own record of best ranking by an Indian 90 last year. Go Jyoti!!

[ajay]

Here are the top rankings and rankings of Indians:

Rank Player Pt.s Tot. # of Pts. Pts.
Avg. Pts. Evts. Lost Gained
2003/04 2005


1 Vijay Singh, Fij 11.93 727.92 61 -119.88 80.19
2 Tiger Woods, USA 11.57 474.43 41 -70.57 81.01
3 Ernie Els, SAf 10.7 556.48 52 -99.62 74.13
4 Phil Mickelson, USA 8.36 401.11 48 -53.2 118.21
5 Retief Goosen, SAf 6.9 344.83 50 -56.82 5.49
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50 Thomas Levet, Frn 2.17 132.41 61 -19.84 0
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58 Thongchai Jaidee, Tha 1.95 81.79 42 -6.75 26.00
70 Toru Taniguchi, Jpn 1.74 90.37 52 -11.03 2.96
81 Jyoti Randhawa, Ind 1.57 83.12 53 -6.31 16.81


Here are the Indians including Vijay, Daniel and Dinesh Chand

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Asian		Name	    World
Rank			           Rank
_   		Vijay Singh     	1
3  		 Jyoti Randhawa 	81
_  		 Daniel Chopra 	180
_   		Dinesh Chand  	211
14 		 Arjun Atwal   	262
17 		 Jeev M Singh  	370
21 		 Amandeep Johl 	424
26 		 Rahil Gangjee 	535
39 		 Harmeet Kahlon	751
45 		 Gaurav Ghei   	829
56 		 Ashok Kumar   	949
58 		 Arjun Singh   	997
59 		 Mukesh Kumar 	1002
66 		 Rafiq Ali    	1071

[jaydeep]

Wow ... simply greart that Jyoti now is 81st ranked player in world ... Now we want to see him on PGA tour regularly from 2006.

Jaydeep.

[BSharma]

The uniqueness of the PGA Tour is that golfers like Jyoti and Jaidee (both top 100) are not playing on the Tour but Daniel with a #500 ranking got in. The criteria to get the PGA Tour card do not include the world ranking.


The world golf ranking gives more emphasis to the PGA Tour and EPGA Tour than APGA and JPGA and hence the top golfers on APGA and JPGA have trouble getting a high enough world ranking. Jaidee and Jyoti have earned a good amount of points from the joint sanctioned events of EPGA and APGA. Both are deserving of a "true" top 100 ranking.

[BSharma]

Tiger regained the #1 ranking today after winning the Ford Championships at Doral.

The world raking points are very close at the top:

1. Tiger 12.27
2. Vijay 11.79
3. Ernie 11.22
4. Phil 9.11
5. Goosen 7.41

[Kumar]

Should we celeberate the 26 weeks reign of VJ or bemoan the loss of his ranking... Either way I guess we can drink to VJ...

[ajay]

Sania became World # 77 in this week, and in Golf Jyoti betters his own Indian record of 81 to reach career high World Rank of 78.

Go Sania! And go Jyoti!!

[BSharma]

Kumar wrote:

Should we celeberate the 26 weeks reign of VJ or bemoan the loss of his ranking... Either way I guess we can drink to VJ...

It is a remarkable feat for any 40+ year old golfer to be ranked # 1 in the world. A 26 week reign is something to celebrate in my opinion.

[jaydeep]

Yes its worth celebrating, as Vijay was Top ranked player for Six Months ... And I don't think its small achievement.

Jaydeep.

[PKBasu]

Of course, his half year reign deserves celebration. But we also have reason to bemoan his inexplicable loss of form in recent weeks -- which has resulted in him being displaced from the pedestal of world golf. His terrific efforts over the previous two years should have conferred a longer reign for him at the top. But his form in the past few weeks has truly been woeful by his standards.

[ajay]

I think it is pre-mature to celebrate or mourn. Vijay may be back at #1 next week. As far as looking at the record of continuous weeks of #1, I don't expect any one break Tiger's previous record. Not even Tiger can match it. I'm sure there will more weeks for Vijay as #1. At least there is no reason to htink otherwise for now.