Is Strokes Gained the Premier Golf Rankings Metric?

Jon Rahm offered up Strokes Gained over OWGR at LIV Golf UK on Wednesday. Here is the exchange with a member of the golf media on hand for the event.

Q. I actually have a follow-up to that because in a world in which you guys haven't been getting points, how have you measured yourself? Are there other ranking systems you've looked at? Is it stats? Is it Data Golf? Where have you looked to see the progress you're making?

JON RAHM: I'm going to start off this by saying that I have my disagreements with the world ranking system before I ever joined LIV. I already thought it was flawed before I ever came, and I was vocal about it. So I think the last few years, even the world ranking itself and both Data Golf do a strokes gained ranking, and I think that much more reflects who truly is playing the best because the actual points being a two-year ranking, you can have a poor week or a poor three weeks, and that will hold you down for two whole years. It's crazy how you can actually finesse a little bit of the system by playing certain weeks and not playing certain weeks and things like that. It's always going to be somewhat accurate but not the most, and I think strokes gained usually is going to be the better representation of how truly everybody is playing. In Data Golf and world ranking, they both have their own version. I think they're somewhat similar for the most part, give and take certain players. But if you're top 10 in one, you're most likely going to be top 10 in the other one. The order might change a little bit, but I think it's a fair representation of where everybody is at.

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