The Official World Ranking governing body announced yesterday that the group’s ranking will restart after June 14.
The PGA TOUR is expected to resume with the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas starting June 11-14. The rankings are expected to resume on a weekly basis following the tournament.
The OWGR took a break on March 15 due to COVID-19, just over a month after Rory McIlroy (Feb. 9th, 2020) climbed the summit for the eighth time, where he has now completed a total of 101 weeks (including the break).
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During the break, MclIroy partnered with Dustin Johnson to defeat the pair of Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff at the Taylormade Driving Relief, a charity match for COVID-19 relief.
Although not all the tours will be returning at the same time, the players playing those tours will be the worst hit, taking into consideration that their rankings will impact their chances of getting selected for the Tokyo Olympics, now postponed to 2021. Case in point being the Mackenzie Tour (PGA Tour of Canada) who have decided to cancel their 2020 season and employ their efforts to resume in 2021.
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The tour which will resume as soon as the PGA TOUR is the European Tour which has planned out the ‘UK Swing’ which includes six events starting with the British Masters behind the closed doors from July 22-25.
OWGR Board Chairman, Peter Dawson, said “The upcoming resumption of play in the United States marks the welcome beginning of the recovery of elite men’s golf from the effects of the pandemic. Many of our sport’s top players will be competing and this merits today’s announcement of the reactivation of the Ranking. The safeguards in the OWGR system alongside the continued recognition of the frozen Ranking will help players globally, and the Board will continue to monitor developments in these difficult times”
