2004 PGA TOUR Media Guide

Official World Golf RankingThe Official World Golf Ranking, whichis endorsed by the four major championshipsand six professional Tours that make up theInternational Federation of PGA Tours, is issuedevery Monday following the completion of theprevious week’s tournaments from around theworld.Results from events on the world’s leading professional tours — theAsian PGA, PGA Tour of Australasia, European Tour, Japan Golf Tour, PGATOUR, Nationwide Tour, Sunshine Tour, Canadian Tour and EuropeanChallenge Tour — are evaluated, and points are awarded according to theplayers’ finishing positions. Tournaments are “rated” according to the strengthof field based on the number and ranking of the world’s top players inrespective tournament fields (event “ratings”).In addition, some strength-of-field weighting is given to the inclusion ineach field of a significant percentage of the top 30 on the host Tour’s prior yearOfficial Money Lists. The four major championships and THE PLAYERSChampionship are rated separately to reflect the higher field quality of theevents. In addition, the Volvo PGA Championship in Europe and the Australian,Japanese and South African Open Championships are allocated higherminimum point levels to reflect their status.The Official World Golf Ranking points for each player are accumulatedover a two-year “rolling” period, with the points awarded in the most recent13-week period doubled. Each player then is ranked according to his averagepoints per tournament, which is determined by dividing his total number ofpoints by the tournaments he has played over that two-year period. There is aminimum requirement of 40 tournaments for the two-year period.The winners of the Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open andPGA Championship are awarded 50 points (30 points for second place, 20 forthird, 15 for fourth, down to 0.75 points for a player completing the finalround), and the winner of THE PLAYERS Championship is awarded 40 points(points are awarded down to 60th place).The Volvo PGA Championship has a minimum of 32 points for the winner(points down to 56th place). In addition, the Open Championships of Australia,Japan and South Africa have a minimum of 16 points for the winner (pointsawarded down to 37th place).Minimum points levels of all the other official Tour events have been setat three points for the Nationwide, European Challenge and Canadian Tours;six points for the Sunshine (points to 14th place); eight points for Australasiaand Japan (points to 19th place); and 12 points for Europe and the UnitedStates (points to 27th place).Beginning in September 2001, a new feature was added to the rankingsystem — any applicable two-year time period is divided into eight 13-weeksegments. Ranking points in each player’s record will be reduced in value byone-eighth at the conclusion of each segment, thereby cutting the sudden andsometimes dramatic impact of the reduction of one-half that previouslyoccurred at the one- and two-year anniversaries of events in which playersearn points. Full Ranking points are awarded for tournaments reduced to 54holes because of inclement weather or other reasons. For events completingonly 36 holes, Ranking points are reduced by 25 percent.The Official World Golf Ranking is available each week at PGA TOURsites or by going to www.officialworldgolfranking.com or www.owgr.com. Thetop 100 as of Nov. 10, 2003 (last ranking of official 2003 PGA TOUR season)follows:SECTION 4 / SPECIAL EVENTS1. Tiger Woods * 16.822. Vijay Singh * 10.373. Ernie Els * 9.014. Davis Love III * 8.145. Jim Furyk * 7.676. Mike Weir * 7.137. Retief Goosen * 6.228. Kenny Perry * 5.739. David Toms * 5.6510. Padraig Harrington w 5.4011. Darren Clarke * 4.8612. Nick Price * 4.8313. Phil Mickelson * 4.3714. Chad Campbell * 4.1715. Stuart Appleby * 3.9716. Justin Leonard * 3.8517. Robert Allenby * 3.8418. Brad Faxon * 3.7619. Fredrik Jacobson * 3.7120. K.J. Choi * 3.6621. Charles Howell III * 3.6122. Adam Scott * 3.3723. Scott Verplank * 3.3424. Jonathan Kaye * 3.3125. Paul Casey 3.28* PGA TOUR Member26. Jay Haas * 3.2727. Chris DiMarco * 3.2428. Bob Tway * 3.2329. Chris Riley * 3.1830. Thomas Bjorn 3.1331. Fred Funk * 3.1232. Rocco Mediate * 3.1233. Jerry Kelly * 3.1034. Sergio Garcia * 3.0735. Stephen Leaney * 2.9636. Fred Couples * 2.9337. Rich Beem * 2.8438. Bob Estes * 2.8139. Colin Montgomerie 2.7540. Shigeki Maruyama * 2.7441. Alex Cejka * 2.7342. Peter Lonard * 2.7243. Shaun Micheel * 2.6744. Michael Campbell * 2.6745. Eduardo Romero 2.6646. Justin Rose * 2.6447. Loren Roberts * 2.6248. Ben Curtis * 2.6049. Ian Poulter 2.5950. Stewart Cink * 2.50www.officialworldgolfranking.com51. Scott Hoch * 2.5052. Niclas Fasth * 2.4853. Phillip Price 2.4554. Tim Herron * 2.4455. Kirk Triplett * 2.3656. Steve Flesch * 2.3657. Trevor Immelman 2.3458. John Huston * 2.3359. Len Mattiace * 2.3260. Scott McCarron * 2.3161. Jeff Sluman * 2.3062. John Rollins * 2.2863. Toshi Izawa 2.2564. Shingo Katayama 2.2565. Angel Cabrera * 2.2066. Lee Westwood 2.1867. Brian Davis 2.1468. Tim Clark * 2.1269. Briny Baird * 2.1170. Jonathan Byrd * 2.1071. Rory Sabbatini * 2.0072. Mathias Gronberg 1.9973. J.L. Lewis * 1.9874. Nick Faldo 1.9775. Dan Forsman * 1.9576. Craig Parry * 1.9477. Steve Lowery * 1.9478. Paul Lawrie 1.9179. Ignacio Garrido 1.8880. Todd Hamilton 1.8781. Geoff Ogilvy * 1.8582. Bradley Dredge 1.8583. Ricardo Gonzalez 1.8484. Robert Gamez * 1.8085. Duffy Waldorf * 1.8086. Kevin Sutherland * 1.7687. Tim Petrovic * 1.7688. Tom Lehman * 1.7489. Mark Calcavecchia * 1.7490. Bernhard Langer * 1.7491. Lee Janzen * 1.6692. Jose Maria Olazabal * 1.6593. Gary Evans 1.6594. Ben Crane * 1.6195. Andre Stolz 1.5996. Miguel A. Jimenez 1.5797. Toru Taniguchi 1.5798. Carlos Rodiles 1.5699. Stephen Ames * 1.53100. Alastair Forsyth 1.504-10 / 2003 PGA TOUR Media Guide WWW.PGATOUR.COM