Lydia Ko's reign as World No. 1 will extend into another week, despite the LPGA announcing earlier that she had been usurped by Ariya Jutanugarn.
Lydia Ko's reign as World No. 1 will extend into another week, despite the LPGA announcing earlier that she had been usurped by Ariya Jutanugarn.
Contrary to the projections released last week, the New Zealand holds onto the top spot by a mere hundredth of a point after the LPGA released a statement admitting that there had been a glitch in their calculations.
“Last week, we issued some projections which showed Ariya Jutanugarn taking over the No. 1 spot in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings based on player finishes at the LPGA’s 2017 ShopRite LPGA Classic which concluded yesterday (Sunday, June 4). However, when official rankings were run this morning (Monday, June 5), we discovered a bug in the projection tool.''
“When running the projections, the tool used the date on which the projections were run, rather than the date when the rankings would be released. Thus when projections were run last week, they included the 2015 Manulife LPGA Classic in the event count for both Ko (51 events) and Jutanugarn (58 events). When the rankings were run today, that event correctly dropped from the rankings’ 104-week cycle and reduced the total number of events for both players by one (Ko 50 events; Jutanugarn 57 events) which resulted in average world ranking points of 8.37 for Ko and 8.36 for Jutanugarn. So Ko maintains the No. 1 position by a .01 point margin.
“We are working to correct the problem within the projection tool and we apologize for the error in last week’s projections.”
Her continued dominance may be short-lived however, with Jutanugarn the only player of the world's top three to be in the field at next week's LPGA Manulife Classic.
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