PGA Tour of Australasia pro David Micheluzzi has added his voice to the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) debate, questioning why he received over twice as many points in the Australian PGA Championship at the start of the year than in the same tournament last week.
The event held in January had a considerably lower profile than the one won by World No.3 Cameron Smith on Sunday. That’s because, unlike last week’s tournament, it was a standalone PGA Tour of Australasia event and not co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour. In January, Micheluzzi finished tied for ninth, for which he received 4.48 OWGR points. However, he performed even better last week, finishing sixth in a far stronger field. That improvement is not reflected in the OWGR points, though. This time, he only received 2.01 points.
That has left Micheluzzi baffled. He pointed out the discrepancy on Twitter, posting images from the OWGR website showing the two results and writing: “There is two photos I’ve posted, one is a result I had at the Aus PGA at the start of the year which was just an Aus Tour event I came 9th and got 4.48 points. The other is last week a DP tour event with Cam playing, I came 6th and got 2.01 points. WTF is this s***!!”
There is two photos I’ve posted, one is a result I had at the Aus PGA at the start of the year which was just an Aus Tour event I came 9th and got 4.48 points. The other is last week a DP tour event with Cam playing, I came 6th and got 2.01 points. WTF is this shit!! 🤬🤬 pic.twitter.com/GehIOlDILeNovember 28, 2022
Micheluzzi’s comments are the latest frustrations voiced by pros on the perceived unfairness of the current OWGR criteria. Before the season-closing DP World Tour Championship earlier in the month, Jon Rahm described the OWGR’s changes to its strength of field calculations as “laughable.”
Despite the tournament featuring seven of the world’s top 25 players, Rahm gained just 21.8 OWGR points for his win – less than half of the 46 awarded to Collin Morikawa for his victory the year before. That was even more controversial considering that the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic, played in the same week, saw winner Adam Svensson claim 37 points despite the highest-ranked player in the tournament being World No.30 Shane Lowry.
The new OWGR system took effect in August and immediately drew criticism, with one insider telling Golf Monthly: “The one thing that everybody has overlooked is the fact that the European Tour and…
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