As tournament cancellations continue to mount, and a return to competitive golf appears measured in months instead of weeks, the team behind the Official World Golf Rankings is leaving all options on the table. That includes potentially bringing the mathematical churn to a halt.
The OWGR works on a two-year rolling window, with players receiving their full point value from a given result for the 12 weeks following a tournament. After that, the point values gradually diminish each week until they age off completely after two years.
But with COVID-19 concerns knocking out another month of worldwide events and pushing a possible return to competition to late May at the earliest, that would mean a lot of points aging off without any new results to supplement them.