Tiger Tops Top Ten Golfer List - Carmen Diode Top Ten

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10/10/2006

Tiger STILL Tops Top Ten Golfer List
By: Carmen Diode

Tiger Woods remains atop the Carmen Diode (CD) World Top Ten Golfer rankings even though he saw no action for the week just ended (at least he saw no professional tournament action - one can only speculate on the action that he is seeing with wife Elin). The Golf Channel Tiger win streak remains in tact since Tiger did not lose a tournament. The Golf Channel's method of scoring wins and losses for Tiger has him sitting on twenty-five consecutive wins - which shatters the previous record of eleven wins held by Lord Byron Nelson.

Tiger was still making news as he entertained the possibility of passing on what would be his seventh Vardon Trophy - the award presented to the professional player with the lowest scoring average for the year. Woods has until Friday to decide whether he wants to win the Vardon Trophy. The Vardon Trophy requires a minimum of 60 rounds and Tiger has completed only 55. Woods is entered in the season ending Tour Championship but that would still leave him one round shy of the minimum requirement so he must enter the Funai Classic at Disney to complete his 60 rounds and the deadline for entering that tournament is Friday. Tiger already has locked up the afore mentioned Byron Nelson Award for lowest scoring average (at 68.11). If he elects to skip the Funai then the Vardon Trophy most likely would go to Jim Furyk (68.88).

Kim Jong-Il, one of golf's world heavy-hitters, got himself in a bit of a jam by using the wrong kind of explosives to create some bunkers for a course that he is designing in North Korea and the fau paux will likely cost him an invitation to the 2007 Masters - so Jong-Il slips from the World top ten rankings for the week.

Padraig Harrington the first proved that he is among the best in the world by beating a strong field to win the Dunhill Links Championship at the Old Course - St. Andrews, Scotland. Many of the 2006 European Ryder Cup team competed in this event as well as Ernie Els, V.J. Singh and Joakim Haeggman. Padraig's win was good enough for a fourth-place spot on this week's top ten list - and he might have placed even higher had his brother Joey not performed so dismally in the Miami Dolphin's loss to the New England Patriots in last Sunday's NFL contest.

Sergio Garcia joined Phil Mickelson with his announcement that he would be playing no more tournament golf for the remainder of 2006 so Sergio loses his spot on the top ten rankings. Sergio's decision to play in no more 2006 tournaments means he will earn no more tournament money in 2006 which opens the door for David Duvall to play another two years on the PGA tour through a complicated and hosed-up process that allows Duvall to enter tournaments on exemptions linked to his position on the all-time earnings list. Brings to mind the old adage that good luck is better than no luck at all.

Davis Love the third beat out Jason Bohn, Eric Axley, Steve Flesch, and Ryan Palmer to win the coveted Chrysler Classic of Greensboro. The win was Love's first in a really long time. Love claimed to no longer be smarting from being left off of this year's US Ryder Cup team but he twice wore a windbreaker with the words "bite me, Tom Lehman" stenciled on the back during his four round outing.

Lorena Ochoa and Tom Jenkins earn spots on this week's top ten for their respective (or irrespective) wins in the Guadalajara Corona Morelia LPGA Championship and the Champion's Tour SAS Championship. Not sure who won what but Lorena is 24 and from Mexico while Jenkins is 58 and from Texas.

Nick Faldo becomes the 2nd individual to find a spot on the top ten based on his television broadcasting activities, replacing Ian Baker Finch who made the list last week. Faldo was named by CBS to replace Lanny Wadkins as the lead color commentator on the CBS golf broadcast team. Wadkins refused to accept a lesser role at CBS (he was being asked to accept the new responsibility of washing the CBS equipment trucks in 2007) and his co-anchor position with Jim Nance now goes to Faldo. Faldo will continue to be an analyst on ABC golf telecasts as well and has also accepted an invitation to join the Golf Channel's broadcast staff for the PGA tour events that they will be televising in 2007. One has to wonder where he will find the time to captain the 2008 European Ryder Cup team and if his broadcasting talents are really so good to warrant being on so many channels but who can argue with success.

The official and current PGA world top ten rankings:

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Jim Furyk
Vijay Singh
Adam Scott
Retief Goosen
Ernie Els
Luke Donald
Sergio Garcia
Geoff Ogilvy

The CD World Top Ten Golfer rankings:

Tiger Woods
Jim Furyk
Davis Love III
Padraig Harrington & J.P. McManus (Padraig's amateur partner at the Dunhill Championship)
Ernie Els
Adam Scott
Davis Love XVVII
Tom Jenkins
Lorena Ochoa
Nick Faldo

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