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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I believe that's the money list for PGA events.
For WGC events then maybe the lower World rankings matter.
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They matter to an extent in some tournaments. I know for the Masters, you get an automatic invite if you're in the top-50. That's why you have lots of guys in the 40-80 range playing lots of tournaments before the Masters, to try and win their way into the top-50.
For the most part though, they're just a statistical way of seeing who the best golfers are at a given point in time.
Tiger falling out of #1 this week would be the end to his record 270 consecutive weeks atop the rankings (which broke his own record of 264).
If Phil does indeed pass Tiger, it would be on the same day that Tiger started his first five-year reign (August 15, 1999).