World Amateur Golf Ranking

The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men was introduced by the R&A, the governing body of amateur golf outside the United States and Mexico, on 23 January 2007. It is based on the results of over 750 amateur tournaments and is updated weekly. Rankings are based on the players' average performances in counting events over a rolling 52 week period. Some notable tournaments on this list include: The Amateur Championship, U.S. Amateur, and the European Amateur.

Like the Official World Golf Rankings for male professional golfers, the amateur ranking was initiated by the R&A to provide a more reliable means of selecting an appropriate field for one of its tournaments. The professional rankings were initially used to help set the field for The Open Championship and the amateur rankings play a role in selecting the field for The Amateur Championship, which was previously selected mainly on the basis of national handicap systems. Other tournament organisers will be able to use the rankings to select players if they so wish.

In February 2011, the United States Golf Association (USGA) endorsed the rankings and announced it will use them for an exemption category in all their men's amateur championships, including the U.S. Amateur, beginning in 2011.^[1]

The first set of rankings featured over 1,000 players from 46 different countries and was headed by the 2006 U.S. Amateur Champion, Richie Ramsay of Scotland.

Chronology of World Number Ones

References

External links

• Official site