Official Rankings System Appointed for Swifts Schools Golf Tour
Waterville, Ohio — Clarity.Golf today announced the launch of the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings, a new global junior ranking framework, and confirmed that Cicero has been agreed as the official rankings system for the Swifts Schools Golf Tour.
The Swifts Schools Golf Tour encompasses nearly 100 school golf programs across the United Kingdom and, in practice, defines the landscape of organized competitive school golf in the UK.
Under the agreement, results from Swifts Schools Golf Tour competitions will be posted directly into the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings, forming a foundational component of the system’s initial international rollout.
The first beta test of the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings will take place at Swifts’ inaugural 2026 event during the first week of March. This beta phase will validate data flow, governance, and ranking behavior in live competition prior to public release.
The official launch of the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings is planned for Masters Week 2026, aligning the system’s debut with one of the most globally recognized moments in the game.
The Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings are designed to bring long-term credibility, transparency, and developmental context to junior golf by replacing fragmented scoreboards and reputation-based authority with a system grounded in verified results, strength of field, consistency, and progression over time.
“Junior golf needs a rankings system that earns trust through structure and provenance, not personality,” said Bill Bales, founder of Clarity.Golf. “Working with Swifts gives Cicero an immediate anchor in one of the most established school golf ecosystems in the world.”
While Swifts events will be a major contributor, the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings are designed to operate independently of any single tour. The system will incorporate junior tournaments globally, extending well beyond school golf to provide a unified international view across regions, tours, and graduation years.
Rankings operate on rolling performance windows, normalize for field strength, and are structured to reflect development across seasons and age groups rather than single outcomes.
In parallel with the rankings rollout, Clarity.Golf will concurrently launch a highly governed youth derivative of its Cicero performance tool commons, made available free of charge to junior golfers worldwide. This junior-focused commons is designed to provide age-appropriate, developmentally responsible performance insight while maintaining strict safeguards around governance, data use, and athlete well-being.
“Cicero is not about labeling juniors early,” Bales added. “It’s about telling the truth clearly and fairly, while giving young players access to modern tools that support healthy, long-term development.”
Clarity.Golf also announced a parallel, exclusive long-term alliance with InRange, the global leader in instrumented driving range technology. InRange and Cicero will collaborate on ongoing programs to further support youth golf worldwide, including an InRange World Youth Development and Range Competition Program integrated with the Cicero ecosystem and aligned with the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings.
In addition, Clarity.Golf has confirmed that the five Performance Stewards guiding Cicero’s mission to replace guru-driven instruction with high-fidelity measurement and ground truth have been determined. A major related announcement regarding stewardship, governance, and oversight will be forthcoming.
Cicero is being built as part of a broader professional commons developed by Clarity.Golf, intended to raise standards while reducing friction, opacity, and cost as measurement increasingly becomes software.
The Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings will be introduced publicly during the 2026 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, with the Swifts beta marking the first live implementation ahead of the Masters Week launch.
Further details on eligibility, methodology, and regional rollout will be released in the coming weeks.
About Clarity.Golf
Clarity.Golf is a golf technology and simulator integration company focused on practitioner-centric innovation and premium indoor golf performance environments.
Bill Bales has often been referred to as the godfather of indoor golf by the sports technology intelligentsia.
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