Westwood Reinjury Means He Might Shut It Down, Squelching Hopes Of Writers Eyeing World No. 1 Takeover Stories

Oh but it's not all bad news, because it is, after all, the Official World Golf Ranking where sense was long ago abandoned.

Needing a first or second-place finish to dethrone Tiger Woods as world number one, Westwood is outside the top 30 at halfway.

But if he misses his defence of the Portugal Masters next week, he will overtake Woods on the rankings - calculated over a two-year period - at the end of this month.

Comments

[The Constructivist]

The could always write about the LPGA. Plenty of #1 takeover stories there.

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

If that OWGR (not ours) had been in charge, the Confederacy might still be in the running to win the Civil War, based on their dominating performance from 12 April 1861 to 3 July 1863.

[digsouth]

The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down, one of my favorite songs.

But still, I don't see Yanks in the AL series from last years WS win.

[Hawkeye]

At least he short 66 today to give him a good chance to grab the #1 spot on merit, whatever that means. Somebody please explain to me why it's only OK to reach #1 on an average-based list if you actually play the week your average puts you on top of the list!

[Jock]

Would seem pretty sensible to me, that TW is not No.1 at this time ?

[Bar Fedora]

For perspective, an updated copy of the list of all players who have ascended to #1...

(weeks at #1, player, majors won)

620 -- Tiger Woods (14)
331 -- Greg Norman (2)
98 -- Nick Faldo (6)
61 -- Seve Ballesteros (5)
50 -- Ian Woosnam (1)
44 -- Nick Price (3)
32 -- Vijay Singh (3)
16 -- Fred Couples (1)
15 -- David Duval (1)
9 -- Ernie Els (3)
3 -- Bernhard Langer (2)
1 -- Tom Lehman (1)

PS...Nicklaus would be alongside Woods had the list had existed in his era.