With Tiger dropping out of the Top 50, and Phil Mickelson flirting with irrelevance, I thought it might interesting to take a look at how the top ten of the World Golf Rankings have change since 2005
| Rank | 2005 | 2009 | 2015 – Week 6 |
| 1 | Vijay Singh | Tiger Woods | Rory McIlroy |
| 2 | Tiger Woods | Phil Mickelson | Henrik Stenson |
| 3 | Ernie Els | Steve Stricker | Bubba Watson |
| 4 | Retief Goosen | Lee Westwood | Jason Day |
| 5 | Phil Mickelson | Padraig Herrington | Adam Scott |
| 6 | Padraig Harrington | Jim Furyk | Jim Furyk |
| 7 | Sergio Garcia | Paul Casey | Sergio Garcia |
| 8 | Mike Wier | Henrik Stenson | Justin Rose |
| 9 | Davis Love III | Rory McIlroy | Jordan Spieth |
| 10 | Stewart Cink | Kenny Perry | Matt Kuchar |
From 2005, none of the players in the top ten remain. From 2015, there are just two: Rory McIlroy, who climbed from ninth to first, and Jim Furyk, who remains at 7.
It has been a real changing of the guard.
Also, Henrik Stenson is on the 2009 chart at 8, and is now #2.
The most surprising name not on the 2015 list? Rickie Fowler.
I know that I have been saying for 6 years that I thought that Tiger would never catch Jack… but I never expected him to stop winning completely. I am wondering with this short return and then possible re-injury if we may never be able to see him play well again. I hope that is not the case.
I may not be a big Tiger fan, but it was upsetting to see him have to dropout like that. And I don’t think it was a work (to use a Wrestling term). I think some of his other injuries have been works, but not this time.