Amateur golfers to get ranking system in UK

Amateur golfers are to start having their own world ranking next month, the Royal and Ancient Club announced today.

Following an 18-month trial R&A Director Mike Tate said of the system, first proposed as a means of clarifying entry into its championships: “The level of international support for its adoption has convinced us that it will be seen throughout the golfing nations as an increasingly useful tool and as a way of comparing one elite amateur player against another.