OWGR Folks Knew They Had A Limited Field Problem...

Doug Ferguson explains that the folks controlling the Official World Golf Ranking have an adjustment in place to counteract the excessive impact of limited field events, but it still isn't enough to prevent a massive jump like the one Tiger made last weekend by winning the 18-player Chevron World Challenge.

There will be some slight changes next year for Woods' event at Sherwood, and for the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, which Lee Westwood won and received 38 ranking points.

The Official World Golf Ranking board, at its annual meeting in July, approved a modification for tournaments that have fewer than 30 players. Those events will no longer get the "home tour" rating component -- essentially bonus points that depend on how many players from the host tour are in the event.

But it won't make that much of a difference.