DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Aug. 23, 2007 — The Rolex Rankings Board and Technical Committee today
announce modifications to the process for calculating the Strength of Field for weekly Rolex Rankings. The
modification will be implemented for the Aug. 27, 2007, Rolex Rankings release.
Since the inception of the Rolex Rankings in 2006, Strength of Field has been based on two values: World
Points value and Home Tour Points value. The modified system announced today will continue using the two
values, however, the Home Tour values will be modified to reflect values for the top-30 players in the field from the
previous year’s tour money list/order of merit instead of the top-50 players. In addition, Home Tour Points will
change from a maximum of 200 points to a maximum of 75 points or 75 percent value of World Points value,
whichever is lower (see examples on page 2).
"With the reduction in Home Tour value, the weekly Strength of Field for each tour will place greater
emphasis on a player’s ranking in the Rolex Rankings rather than on her previous season’s Home Tour
performance," said Chris Higgs, chairman of the Rolex Rankings Technical Committee. "We constantly review the
process for calculating Rolex Rankings to ensure we have the strongest system in place to recognize the best players
in the world and who they compete against on a weekly basis. This modification will identify and award a more
equitable value to those fields that have a greater concentration of top Rolex Rankings players."
Rolex Rankings share the established men’s world rankings philosophy of awarding points based on field
strength and evaluates player performances over a rolling two-year period weighted in favor of the current year with
even more importance placed on the most recent 13 weeks.
About the Rolex Rankings
The Rolex Rankings is the first-ever world rankings system for women’s golf sanctioned by the five major women’s
professional golf tours: the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA); Ladies European Tour (LET); Ladies
Professional Golfers’ Association of Japan (LPGA of Japan); Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association
(KLPGA); Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG); as well as the Ladies Golf Union (LGU), which administers
the RICOH Women’s British Open. The Rolex Rankings are the only women’s world rankings that incorporate
player performances from the five major tours and the Duramed Futures Tour, the official developmental tour of
the LPGA. R2IT, an independent software development company, developed the software for the Rolex Rankings
and maintains the Rolex Rankings on a weekly basis.
Contact:
Connie Wilson, LPGA, 386-274-6200, connie.wilson@lpga.com
Bethan Cutler, LET, +44 (0) 7980056045, bcutler@ladieseuropeantour.com
Sam Kwak, KLPGA, sam.kwak@klpga.com
Warren Sevil, ALPG, +61 416 244 133, warren.sevil@alpgtour.com
Kosuke Takasu, LPGA of Japan, +81 33 5467801, takasu@lpga.or.jp
Susan Simpson, LGU, +44 01334 475811, susan.simpson@lgu.org
