Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington warned young PGA Tour pros could be “squeezed out” of the game due to recent changes to golf’s world rankings.
Alterations to the OWGR system – specifically how the strength of fields are calculated – came into effect earlier this year.
Since then the rankings have been criticised with former world No.1 Jon Rahm branding them “laughable” and Tiger Woods describing the system as “flawed”.
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Now Harrington, who captained Europe at last year’s Ryder Cup, has claimed there is another potential downside to the new system.
The 51-year-old criticised the strokes-gained rankings, which are used to calculate the strength of field, for creating a “false narrative” which he says causes DP World Tour players to underperform in PGA Tour events.
A point missed with the OWGR. @DPWorldTour@PGATOUR@OWGRltd@VC606@MarkBroadie@DodoMolinari@gregallenRTEpic.twitter.com/amSsQ15uUT
— Padraig Harrington (@padraig_h) December 1, 2022
“I constantly see good European players play one-off tournaments on the PGA Tour like they are playing a final of a tour school,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Out of their comfort zone they underperform on a new and unfamiliar course (remember…
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