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Watching Tiger Woods steadily drop into the abyss of the world ranking, one can’t help but be reminded of Paul Simon’s 1977 hit song Slip Slidin’ Away.
“Slip sliding away, slip sliding away. . . . You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away.”
Woods is 56th in the world rankings, falling out of the top 50 for the first time since Oct. 6, 1996, when he debuted at No. 75 about two months after turning professional and joining the PGA Tour.
It took Woods only 28 weeks for Woods to climb inside the top 10, and he hit No. 1 for the first time — albeit briefly — on June 15, 1997.
Dating back to the week before the 2005 U.S. Open, Woods held the top spot for 281 consecutive weeks, a record run that ended on Oct. 31, 2010, when England’s Lee Westwood became the first European in 16 years to be ranked No. 1 in the world. A few weeks ago, Woods got bumped from the top 50 to 51st when 2010 British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen finished tied for fifth at the Dunhill Links Championship. That ended Woods’s streak of 778 consecutive weeks inside the top 50.
Woods’s decline in the world rankings has been almost as quick and dramatic as his rise. He went from first to 51st in 49 weeks.
The formula used for the world ranking is complex, and its critics would like to see a system in which recent performances are
cheap golf clubs more heavily weighted. In a nutshell, the current system uses a rolling schedule that takes into account a player’s performance over the previous two years, with results accumulated in the most recent 13-week period given higher value.
The “strength of the field” for every tournament is also a factor. Woods has gone more than two years without a win, and continues to lose acquired ranking points with each passing week.
His last Tour victory, which came on Sept. 13, 2009, at the 2009 BMW Championship, is no longer part of the ranking equation for him. Woods, who failed to qualify for this year’s FedExCup Playoffs for the first time since they began, isn’t playing at this week’s $7-million World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai, China ineligible for a WGC event for the first time in his career.
Woods, who has won 15 WGC titles, could also miss next February’s WGC-Match Play if he slides out of the top 64 in the world ranking by then.
Woods has played only one tournament since missing the cut at the PGA Championship in mid-August. He tied for 30th at last month’s Frys.com Open in his native California despite going in brimming with confidence after spending his time away from the FedExCup Playoffs re-tooling both his physical and his mental game.
He returns to competition at next week’s Australian Open in Sydney, a week before joining the U.S. team for The Presidents Cup in Melbourne. Australia is where Woods last won a tournament, the 2009 Australian Masters (now JBWere Masters), two weeks before his private life and his marriage to Elin Nordegren started to unravel amid tales of extra-martial affairs.
Woods’s slide in the world ranking hasn’t been helped by a rash of injuries, and there is also an abundance of young players on the scene now who have shown they are capable of winning whether Woods is in the field or not. How far Woods’s slide continues is anyone’s guess, but signs point to it getting worse before it gets better.
He said it: “As long as it’s legal, I’ll keep cheating like the rest of them.” —Three-time major champion Ernie Els, on his switch from a conventional-length putter to a belly model.
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