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Padraig Harrington World Ranking History - week by week

  • 06-12-2009 2:02pm
    #1
    Pisco Sour
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    For all you stats lovers out there I've attached an excel spreadsheet with a week by week list of Padraig Harrington's World Ranking throughout his career.

    Enjoy.


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  • #2
    slavetothegrind
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    A truly remarkable carrer so far!

    Will be interesting to see Rory's in a few years!


  • #3
    Adiaga 2
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    Really has been a remarkable career so far and add his 3 majors and there's no doubt he has been Europe's best player of the 00's. I still think he's underrated outside of this country though.


  • #4
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    Adiaga 2 wrote: »
    I still think he's underrated outside of this country though.

    I'm not sure I'd agree with that. When I was in the US in August 2008 when I said to randommers that I was Irish, the first thing some people said to me was "ahh Padraig Harrington". Outside of U2 he's probably the only Irish person right now who is known all over the western world. He's very popular in the US now.


  • #5
    durkadurka
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    04072511, how did you compile this? did you take every ranking from the archives in owgr.com?

    His dip in form around 2006 - was that when his father died?

    Padraig has been in world top 10 for 5.6 of the last 8 years approx. thats amazing.

    And by march 2010 he will have been in the top 50 for 10 straight years.

    It would be initeresting to compare this consistency with Padraig's peers in world golf - eg sergio, ernie, vijay etc - that division of golfer just below tiger...


  • #6
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    durkadurka wrote: »
    04072511, how did you compile this? did you take every ranking from the archives in owgr.com?

    His dip in form around 2006 - was that when his father died?

    Padraig has been in world top 10 for 5.6 of the last 8 years approx. thats amazing.

    And by march 2010 he will have been in the top 50 for 10 straight years.

    It would be initeresting to compare this consistency with Padraig's peers in world golf - eg sergio, ernie, vijay etc - that division of golfer just below tiger...

    Yeh I spent a bit of time one evening going through the rankings from each week from 1996 onwards. His consistency since 2000 is remarkeable.


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  • #7
    blackwaterfish
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    durkadurka wrote: »
    It would be initeresting to compare this consistency with Padraig's peers in world golf - eg sergio, ernie, vijay etc - that division of golfer just below tiger...



    yes but where would you find someone mental enough to do this?

    :rolleyes:


  • #8
    pansoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭pansoul


    blackwaterfish wrote: »
    yes but where would you find someone mental enough to do this?

    :rolleyes:


    On a golf discussion-board I suppose. :)

    And anyway, what's mental about someone looking for long-term and irrefutable evidence to support an argument?


  • #9
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    blackwaterfish wrote: »
    yes but where would you find someone mental enough to do this?

    :rolleyes:

    Me perhaps :D

    Nah I've no interests in doing this for anybody else to be honest.


  • #10
    blackwaterfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 877 ✭✭✭blackwaterfish


    pansoul wrote: »
    On a golf discussion-board I suppose. :)

    And anyway, what's mental about someone looking for long-term and irrefutable evidence to support an argument?


    well, im fascinated by it... but its still a little nuts ( which i also applaud ! )


  • #11
    Adiaga 2
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    durkadurka wrote: »
    It would be initeresting to compare this consistency with Padraig's peers in world golf - eg sergio, ernie, vijay etc - that division of golfer just below tiger...

    I know it's all subjective but I wouldn't see Harrington quite in the same league as Vijay, Phil or Ernie. I'd say if you had a table for those guys, they would have spent a lot more time in the top5 than Padraig. Vijay and Ernie are also former No.1s, Phil has thirty odd PGA tour wins, Vijay won 10 PGA tour events in one season...

    I'd say Harrington compares very well to the likes of Garcia and Furyk. He also has 3 majors..


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  • #12
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    Adiaga 2 wrote: »
    I know it's all subjective but I wouldn't see Harrington quite in the same league as Vijay, Phil or Ernie. I'd say if you had a table for those guys, they would have spent a lot more time in the top5 than Padraig. Vijay and Ernie are also former No.1s, Phil has thirty odd PGA tour wins, Vijay won 10 PGA tour events in one season...

    I'd say Harrington compares very well to the likes of Garcia and Furyk. He also has 3 majors..

    Furyk has one major. Garcia has none. Padraig is certainly rated higher than these.


  • #13
    Adiaga 2
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    04072511 wrote: »
    Furyk has one major. Garcia has none. Padraig is certainly rated higher than these.

    I meant in terms of their position/consistency in the owgr which is what I thought this thread was about.


  • #14
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    Adiaga 2 wrote: »
    I meant in terms of their position/consistency in the owgr which is what I thought this thread was about.

    Just clarifying that Furyk doesnt have 3 majors, as you said he has in a previous post.

    The thread is about OWGR though so in that regard you are correct that he'd be more in the Sergio league than the Vijay league perhaps.


  • #15
    Adiaga 2
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    04072511 wrote: »
    Just clarifying that Furyk doesnt have 3 majors, as you said he has in a previous post.

    The thread is about OWGR though so in that regard you are correct that he'd be more in the Sergio league than the Vijay league perhaps.

    Thanks 04072511 for your approval but I never said Furyk had 3 majors. Perhaps it wasn't too clear but I referring to Harrington having 3 majors.


  • #16
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    Adiaga 2 wrote: »
    Thanks 04072511 for your approval but I never said Furyk had 3 majors. Perhaps it wasn't too clear but I referring to Harrington having 3 majors.

    Apologies. Got confused when reading your post.


  • #17
    durkadurka
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    I think if we are talking about overall greatness as a player, Padrag is not in the same class as Vijay and Phil despite the same number of major. Thse guys have won a lot more tournaments than him.

    Majors aren't everything(although they count for a LOT). Look at it this way - Seve has 5 majors. Padraig could conceivably equal or beat this target, but I don't think anyone would honestly put Padraig in the same league as Seve. He is genuinely one of the legends of the game.
    PAdraig has more majors than Greg Norman, but I dont put padraig avbvoe Norman i nthe great scheme of things.

    In terms of world ranking consistency, padraig probably is in the same league as ernie and vijay, and certainly sergio and Furyk.

    Phil has spent most of the last 10 years in the top 3 I think from memory so that puts him a notch above Padraig.

    Having said all that how do you measure greatness - I think monty has a certain greatness for his domination of european golf for so long and his ryder cup record. But no major.

    Same goes for the likes of clarke and westwood. That zero count in the major category really counts against them despite all their other achievements.

    And I dont think we can just say that Tiger wins so many majors that there's none for anyone else to win. Statistically it's not true - tiger has 14 majors in 13 years as a pro. Not much more than one a year overall.

    In that time the likes of todd hamilton, Rich beem, Ben curtis ,YE Yang, shawn micheel and other 'Johnny No Stars' have won majors, so they're there to be won.


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