The Official World Golf Ranking has never enjoyed the prominence it has today, but it's not the good kind of prominence. With some of the world's best players no longer receiving points since they're with LIV, the OWGR is under fire, and even LIV-neutral observers think it might be dying. But what is the OWGR? How does it work? How did it come about historically? This week on Local Knowledge, we go deep on the system that is reeling, and might need a eulogy before long.
Ryder Cup Radicals: Our last guess at the US captain's picks
Ryder Cup Radicals: The lowdown from Chi-Town
Rise of the Euros, 1983: When Tony Jacklin and Seve Ballesteros transformed the Ryder Cup
Ryder Cup Radicals: Embracing the Mayhem-phis
Ryder Cup Radicals: You Wyndham, You Lose Some
The Gleneagles Massacre: Paul McGinley Schools Tom Watson at the 2014 Ryder Cup
Ryder Cup Radicals: Which team looks better after the Open? Plus Head-to-Head Player Analysis
The Weirdest Major Ever Played: St. Andrews, 1876
The Tragic Brilliance of Young Tom Morris
Ryder Cup Radicals: The LIV Conundrum, Sambuca, and Other Serious Matters
The Sandbag that Changed Golf: Deepdale, 1955
Fear and loathing at Winged Foot '74: The USGA's response to Johnny Miller
The six women who played on the PGA Tour
The Basque Heritage of Jon Rahm: A Story that Goes Back Millennia
The Reckoning at Shoal Creek: When golf's race problem came out of the shadows
Seve Ballesteros: The Legend and the Reality
The Collapse: Greg Norman, 1996, and the final round that lives on
Ronald Reagan, a loaded gun, and the forgotten hostage crisis at Augusta National
The 1983 Rebellion: The PGA Tour's original crisis
Full Swing Wrap: An interview with Executive Producer Chad Mumm
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