World Amateur Golf Event Ranking

Amateur Tournament Rank

worldwide from after 2014 US Amateur (or last conducted early 14 or late 13) through 2015 US Amateur

total amateurs ranked at or above X at start A x B x C = total

Rank Tournament 1 2 3 4 6 10 15 30 50 99 199 299 399 499 600 rounds size qual rds size total

1 United States Amateur 1 2 3 4 6 9 14 27 37 60 86 110 121 131 139 2+64M 312 750 1.1 1.33 1097

2 Western Amateur (USA) 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 18 27 47 82 102 113 116 123 4+16M 156 658 1.2 1.1 869

3 British Amateur (UK) 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 21 33 62 84 111 140 160 2+64M 288 624 1.1 1.19 817

4 NCAA D1 National (USA) 1 2 3 4 5 8 12 17 28 47 78 97 116 133 142 4 156 693 1 1.1 762

5 World Amateur Team (2014 numbers) 0 1 2 3 4 8 11 16 24 40 57 70 81 88 96 4 183 501 1 1.13 566

6 St Andrews Links Trophy (Scotland) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 13 23 45 61 75 89 103 4 144 416 1 1.09 453

7 European Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 12 26 45 57 80 88 94 4 144 413 1 1.09 450

8 Southern Amateur (southeast USA) 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 9 21 43 62 72 78 82 4 168 376 1 1.11 421

9 European Amateur Team 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 9 17 27 39 46 58 68 72 2+6MR 96 353 1.02 1.02 367

10 Northeast Amateur (RI, USA) 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 8 11 24 43 60 65 67 69 4 90 355 1 1.01 359

11 Australian Amateur 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 11 20 27 42 50 54 62 2+64M 231 281 1.1 1.15 355

12 Sunnehanna Amateur (PA, USA) 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 6 22 45 62 66 68 71 4 89 348 1 1.01 351

13 Players Amateur (SC, USA) 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 10 15 25 45 55 59 63 64 4 89 347 1 1.01 350

14 Lytham Trophy (England) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 13 32 47 60 69 82 4 143 315 1 1.09 343

15 Jones Cup (GA, USA) 1 1 1 2 3 4 6 13 20 29 47 54 61 67 70 3 84 379 0.8 1 303

16 Spanish International Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 10 21 34 46 63 71 2+32M 120 256 1.05 1.06 285

17 South Beach International Am (FL, USA) 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 8 23 33 48 57 64 4 208 245 1 1.15 282

18 Master of the Amateurs (VIC, AUS) 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 7 10 18 28 36 44 49 55 4 78 254 1 0.99 251

19 Brabazon Trophy (English Open Am) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 9 18 25 32 38 44 54 4 155 226 1 1.1 249

20 Asia–Pacific Amateur (14 in Australia) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 4 15 24 32 40 44 48 4 107 213 1 1.04 222

21 Porter Cup (NY, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 13 28 33 42 47 52 4 78 223 1 0.99 221

22 Collegiate Masters (Southern Highlands, NV, USA) 1 1 1 1 2 4 4 8 11 21 33 40 45 48 54 3 81 274 0.8 1 219

23 Pacific Coast Amateur (western USA/CAN) 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 7 8 12 18 26 36 40 47 4 83 203 1 1 203

24 South Africa Stroke Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 20 32 35 37 40 4 141 178 1 1.08 192

25 Amer Ari Invitational (collegiate, HI, USA) 0 1 1 1 2 3 3 5 8 16 25 32 38 43 47 3 110 225 0.8 1.05 189

26 Northern Open Amateur (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 17 22 26 30 32 4+32M 153 132 1.25 1.1 182

26 Riversdale Cup (VIC, AUS) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 10 16 27 32 35 41 4 124 172 1 1.06 182

28 NCAA D1 Southwest Regional (USA) 1 1 2 2 3 5 5 5 7 11 22 28 34 43 51 3 75 220 0.8 0.99 174

29 US Collegiate (GA, USA) 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 11 14 22 28 34 37 45 3 79 215 0.8 0.99 170

30 European Nations (Spain) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 7 11 19 26 27 34 41 4 71 171 1 0.98 168

31 Lake Macquarie Amateur (NSW, AUS) 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 6 10 17 21 24 28 29 4 172 146 1 1.12 164

32 NCAA D1 South Central Regional (USA) 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 11 22 28 37 42 48 3 75 199 0.8 0.99 158

33 NCAA D1 Southeast Regional (USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 16 28 41 45 50 3 75 197 0.8 0.99 156

34 South African Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 16 23 26 27 27 2+64M 144 129 1.1 1.09 155

35 Western Intercollegiate (CA, USA) 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 6 9 13 19 25 30 33 36 3 96 186 0.8 1.02 152

36 Southeastern Conference (collegiate, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 6 11 22 30 34 39 42 3 70 194 0.8 0.97 151

37 NCAA D1 Northwest Regional (USA) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 11 18 27 35 40 46 3 75 189 0.8 0.99 150

38 NCAA D1 Central Regional (USA) 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 6 8 12 19 24 31 38 42 3 75 187 0.8 0.99 148

38 Portuguese International Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 17 26 39 46 4 120 140 1 1.06 148

38 Sahalee Players (WA, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 17 23 30 33 41 4 66 154 1 0.96 148

41 Valspar Collegiate (FL, USA) 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 4 6 16 22 27 33 36 39 3 73 188 0.8 0.98 147

42 Dogwood Invitational (GA, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 14 19 26 34 40 4 93 142 1 1.02 145

42 Irish Amateur Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 9 15 23 24 27 34 4 120 137 1 1.06 145

42 PAC 12 Conference (collegiate, western USA) 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 7 8 14 19 24 30 32 4 72 148 1 0.98 145

45 Canadian Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 8 16 23 29 40 4 262 121 1 1.18 143

46 Scottish Open Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 16 19 24 28 33 4 141 131 1 1.08 141

47 Augusta Invitational (collegiate, GA, USA) 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 6 9 14 20 27 28 31 32 3 78 174 0.8 0.99 138

48 NCAA D1 Northeast Regional (USA) 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 8 18 23 33 39 43 3 75 173 0.8 0.99 137

49 Trans-Miss Amateur (western USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 13 19 24 29 35 4 142 125 1 1.09 136

50 English Amateur (Englishmen only) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 16 20 23 29 2+64M 282 103 1.1 1.19 135

51 Goodwin (collegiate, CA, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 8 16 22 28 31 36 3 132 157 0.8 1.07 134

51 Prestige at PGA West (collegiate, CA, USA) 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 4 14 19 26 30 30 33 3 81 167 0.8 1 134

53 Nomura Cup (Asia-Pacific Team) 13 numbers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 14 20 27 29 31 4 83 133 1 1 133

54 New South Wales Amateur (Australia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 5 9 15 20 20 23 4+32M 216 100 1.15 1.15 132

55 North & South Amateur (NC, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 17 22 30 36 3+16M 94 115 1.1 1.02 129

56 Western Province Open Am (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 16 20 21 22 4+32M 141 94 1.25 1.08 127

57 Cabo Collegiate (Mexico) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 11 17 22 26 33 36 3 70 155 0.8 0.97 120

57 Linger Longer Inv (collegiate, GA, USA) 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 4 5 10 15 24 25 28 33 3 84 150 0.8 1 120

57 Tavistock Collegiate (GA, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 11 17 23 27 30 32 3 75 152 0.8 0.99 120

60 Olympia Fields Intercollegiate (IL, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 11 17 20 24 30 35 3 75 148 0.8 0.99 117

61 Carpet Capital Collegiate (GA, USA) 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 6 7 12 19 26 30 34 3 75 145 0.8 0.99 116

61 Patriot All American (AZ, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 12 20 28 32 34 3 84 145 0.8 1 116

63 Monroe Invitational (NY, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 17 22 30 34 4 78 116 1 0.99 115

63 Nike Collegiate (TX, USA) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 8 10 13 21 26 31 37 3 60 155 0.8 0.93 115

65 Big 12 Conference (collegiate, USA) 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 5 11 16 20 22 24 26 4 45 135 1 0.83 112

66 Argentina Stroke Am 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 10 14 16 19 20 20 4 89 109 1 1.01 110

67 EP & Border Amateur (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 14 23 25 28 31 3 96 130 0.8 1.02 106

67 John Hayt Collegiate (FL, USA) 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 7 11 16 20 22 22 25 3 87 131 0.8 1.01 106

69 Azalea Invitational (SC, USA) 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 8 15 21 22 22 4 110 100 1 1.05 105

70 United States Four Ball 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 5 7 11 12 17 22 2+64M 256 81 1.05 1.22 104

71 Atlantic Coast Conference (collegiate, USA) 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 4 7 12 14 17 22 27 28 3 60 138 0.8 0.93 103

71 Dick‘s Challenge Cup (collegiate, TN, USA) 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 5 6 10 15 24 29 33 3 60 139 0.8 0.93 103

73 Home Internationals (GB&I) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 13 23 26 28 33 33 6MR 44 165 0.74 0.82 100

74 Australian Interstate (team match) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 9 14 22 25 27 28 6MR 56 135 0.8 0.91 98.3

75 Gator Invitational (collegiate, FL, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 6 12 18 23 27 29 3 75 124 0.8 0.99 98.2

76 Free State Amateur Open (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 16 20 20 22 4 159 89 1 1.1 97.9

77 Tailhade Cup (Argentina) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 4 8 12 18 23 23 4 112 93 1 1.05 97.6

78 Puerto Rico Classic (collegiate) 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 4 6 7 13 18 22 23 24 3 75 123 0.8 0.99 97.4

79 Scottish Amateur (Scotsmen only) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 8 11 15 18 21 256M 256 82 1 1.18 96.8

80 Argentina Amateur (match) 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 5 7 11 16 21 21 2+64M 85 87 1.1 1.01 96.7

81 Mason Rudolph (collegiate, TN, USA) 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 5 5 7 12 17 18 22 24 3 81 120 0.8 1 96

82 Schenkel Invitational (collegiate, GA, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 10 16 22 28 31 3 90 117 0.8 1.01 94.5

83 Seminole Intercollegiate (FL, USA) 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 4 8 14 16 21 23 24 3 90 115 0.8 1.01 92.9

84 Hootie at Bulls Bay (collegiate, SC, USA) 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 3 7 13 15 19 25 26 3 75 115 0.8 0.99 91.1

85 Spirit International (TX, USA) 13 numbers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 12 22 26 26 28 29 Birds 40 155 0.75 0.78 90.7

86 Palmetto Amateur (SC, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 19 24 28 4 78 90 1 0.99 89.1

87 Pate National Intercollegiate (AL, USA) 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 6 13 17 20 23 26 3 60 119 0.8 0.93 88.5

88 California State Amateur (USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 9 15 19 24 2+32M 154 76 1.05 1.1 87.8

88 South Africa Interprovincial (team match) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 11 18 23 25 10MR 104 87 0.97 1.04 87.8

90 Carmel Cup (collegiate, CA, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 8 13 19 23 26 30 3 48 127 0.8 0.86 87.4

90 Latin America Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 7 13 17 19 22 4 106 84 1 1.04 87.4

92 William Tucker (collegiate, NM, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 11 15 18 25 27 3 92 107 0.8 1.02 87.3

93 Gifford Collegiate (CA, USA) 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 4 6 9 12 16 17 20 20 3 72 111 0.8 0.98 87

94 Royal Oaks Intercollegiate (TX, USA) 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 9 12 14 16 20 24 3 72 108 0.8 0.98 84.7

95 South American Amateur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 11 17 21 27 4 70 87 1 0.97 84.4

96 Gauteng North Open Am (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 17 19 22 24 4 171 94 0.8 1.12 84.2

97 Kwa Zulu Natal Open Stroke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 8 15 16 17 18 4 115 80 1 1.05 84

98 Southern Cross Inv (biennual) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 10 16 17 20 21 21 4 32 117 1 0.7 81.9

99 Federal Open Amateur (ACT, AUS) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 14 16 16 18 4 128 76 1 1.07 81.3

100 National Invitational (collegiate, AZ, USA) 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 5 8 13 18 20 22 3 83 98 0.8 1 78.4

honorable mentions include: John Burns Intercollegiate (HI, USA) USGA State Team Aggie Invitational (collegiate, TX, USA)

Duck Invitational (collegiate, OR, USA) South Australia Amateur Classic Sea Best Invitational (collegiate, FL, USA)

Japan Amateur San Diego Classic (collegiate, CA, USA) Welsh Open Amateur Terra Cotta Invitational (FL, USA)

Palmetto Collegiate (SC, USA) Keperra Bowl (QLD, AUS) Hampshire Salver (England) Central Gauteng Stroke Am (RSA)

Junior Invitational (GA, USA) Ekurhuleni Stroke (RSA) ASU Thunderbird (collegiate, AZ, USA) French International Am

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Among these 100 top amateur events thru 2015 US Am:

– 58 are conducted in the USA annually

– 39 are USA collegiate events

– 9 are conducted in GB&I

– 9 are conducted in South Africa

– 7 are conducted in Australia

– 5 are conducted on continental Europe

– 6 are conducted in Latin America

– 2 are conducted worldwide biennual

– 2 are conducted in Australasia

– 1 is conducted in Canada

The tournament ranking was compiled by analyzing in detail over 300 amateur events, be they with team component or not, that had a remote chance of making the top 100. In each case, start field size and over how many holes/rounds was carefully documented. A few event start sizes were "adjusted" eliminating those clearly not scratch players. The dominant factor in ranking events is how many top 600 in world amateurs started the tournament based on the SPWAR as of just before the event begins. The higher a player is ranked, the greater their inclusion value.

The Scratch Players World Amateur Event Ranking is the most accurate ranking of amateur competitions ever created. Event weighting is, by far, the most important component in any ranking of golfers and the SPWAR has the most accurate and current event weighting in the amateur world. Nothing else is close which is one reason why the SPWAR is the most accurate ranking of amateurs in golf history.

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of the amateur player ranking.

Event ranking includes the world’s top 100 amateur golf tournaments for the 2014 calendar year plus biannual or date change events last ending in 2013.

Event ranking is based on three factors. The number of top world ranked amateurs factor (field quality) is multiplied times a rounds factor, and again by a size factor.

The "qual" column is compiled where each top 600 in world amateur is deemed worth a value depending on a player’s ranking level as of just before the start of each event. The value levels are provided in the table below. The sum of those values equals the field quality factor.

The “rds" factor takes into consideration all stroke and match rounds. As a general rule, the more rounds scheduled means the stronger the event all other factors equal. A "normal" number of rounds includes 72 holes of stroke play and would get a rounds factor of 1. Rounds for the event ranking means scheduled rounds irrespective of weather shortening unless shortened by more than one round. Weather shortened events in the ranking have their "rds" factor shaded yellow. Weather shortening does reduce points awarded individually in the SPWAR.

The “size” factor is primarily those starting at the championship with significant consideration for total entries received for the USGA events which has extensive total entries and qualifying at many locations national. As a general rule, the larger the start field, the stronger the event all other factors equal. Start size is "net" meaning adjusted by eliminating non-scratch players. A "normal" size field is 80 to 84 players and would get a size factor of 1. This factor was adjusted slightly from 2009 to 2010 diluting advantage of larger fields while enhancing smaller size fields.

SPWAR finish position points assigned do not directly correspond to this event ranking as this ranking is just for the preceding year’s events. SPWAR finish position points are generally based on an event’s average field stats over the preceding three years.

SPWAR finish position points have been adjusted based on this current event ranking for 2014 points awarded.

The event ranking was upgraded in 2012 in that the field quality measure was expanded as follows:

– 15 value for world’s top ranked amateur

– 14 value for world’s #2 ranked amateur

– 13 value for world’s #3 ranked amateur

– 12 value for world’s #4 ranked amateur

– 11 value for ranking of 5-6

– 10 value for ranking of 7-10

– 9 value for ranking of 11-15

– 8 value for ranking of 16-30

– 7 value for ranking of 31-50

– 6 value for ranking of 51-99

– 5 value for ranking of 100-199

– 4 value for ranking of 200-299

– 3 value for ranking of 300-399

– 2 value for ranking of 400-499

– 1 value for ranking of 500-600

Again, the applicable ranking position for purposes of measuring field quality is always as of just prior to the start of any event. A record of the top 600 worldwide is maintained every week since 2011 and since the inception of the ranking for the top 500.