Conrad Golf Rankings

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Conrad Golf Ranking Week 44 -Top 50 The Top 500 can be found- conradgolfranking.com Moving up this week- 64 Andrew Novak⬆️51 spots 88 Steven Fisk⬆️51 spots 105 Doug Ghim⬆️20 spots 152 Yuto Katsuragawa⬆️55 spots 170 Yubin Jang⬆️43 spots 176 Kristoffer Ventura⬆️156 spots 227 Mackenzie Hughes⬆️51 spots 242 Yongjun Bae⬆️79 spots 246 Julien-Alexandre Sale⬆️47 spots 405 Brian Campbell⬆️1487 spots 448 Hiroki Tanaka⬆️214 spots

Conrad Golf Ranking Week 44 Event winners and win points

It sounds as though Bryson DeChambeau remains committed to LIV, his Crushers franchise and team golf.

LIV players at DPWT 2nd Stage Q School with one round to go...

If this new Australian Test Cricket batting reality is acceptable, to those running the game, just kill the long format off completely in this country and stop paying lip service to a format you obviously don't give a damn about.

Tony Finau's career continues its freefall. In late 2023. Finau, a top 20 player for several years, was reportedly in late level talks with LIV. Finau chose to walk away from the LIV offer, but by mid 2025 his star had lost some of its shine. Now ranked 174 on the OWGR, 229 on Data Golf and 242 on Conrad Golf Ranking, does Tony ever regret his decision to stay. He would have an extra $40 million in the bank, and his slump would have been blamed on his move to LIV. There are supposedly some cautionary tales around players who went to LIV. Perhaps Tony Finau and Will Zalatoris are cautionary tales from the other side of the divide...

Second Stage Qualifying for the DPWT is happening this week at four venues. The leading 20 players at each venue will go through to Final Qualifying. LIV players competing and their current place in the respective fields after two rounds- Desert Springs Golf Club Michael La Sasso T20 Yosuke Asaji T29 Golf Las Pinaillas Luis Maseveu T28 Isal Canela Links Sam Horsfield T65 LIV Reserve, Luis Carrera is T10 at Isla Canela Links

Sergio Garcia's anticipated departure from LIV has been confirmed in an announcement from Sergio. The statement some "living in my own bubble of the highest degree, or an intentional piss take. No mention of the past few years on LIV and apparently no memory of things he said about the DPWT and PGA Tour when he was leaving. I wish Sergio all the best in his endeavours but I expect others might remember what he seems to have forgotten.

Winner of last week's Genesis Championship on the DPWT, Yuto Katsuragawa, has continued his good form in the first round of the Vantelin Tokai Classic, on the Japan Golf Tour. At -6, he leads by one shot from Tomoyo Ikemura and Yujiro Ohori.

Conrad Golf Ranking Week 43- Top 50 52 Austin Smotherman⬆️10 spots 64 Corey Conners⬆️13 spots 103 Thomas Pieters⬆️15 spots 118 Ryosuke Kinoshita⬆️27 spots 125 Yoshinori Fujimoto⬆️65 spots 140 Martin Couvra⬆️60 spots 171 Shugo Imahira⬆️44 spots 180 Frederic LaCroix⬆️129 spots 200 Sanghun Shin⬆️71 spots 201 Yuto Katsuragawa⬆️270 spots 261 John Catlin⬆️224 spots 409 Matthew Cheung⬆️310 spots

Conrad Golf Ranking Week 43 Event winners and win points

Players inside the OWGR Top 50 experiencing a ranking slide in 2026. Injuries have played a part for a couple of players. The 2025 Ryder Cup appears to have impacted another. Golf can be hard, even for Top 50 players. Any other thoughts?

The latest State of Play. Graeme McDowell joins those confirming his time with LIV has come to an end, for what that's worth. Graeme's last DPWT event was the 2022 BMW PGA Championship. Expect a few DPWT members to be less than impressed if McDowell gets tour-initiated invites into DPWT events.

Trialing a new graphic for the weekly Top 40 update. Hatton and Herbert will be DPWT blue with the Week 43 update...

So, if LIV Player Equity is the justification for DPWT bans, and LIV have approximately 20 spots in each event for non-contracted players, are DPWT members then free to play in LIV events which do not clash with scheduled DPWT events?

Latest State of Play. Almost as much red on the board as a Presidents Cup Sunday 🙃

The poor run of form continues for Elvis Smylie. Elvis moved to LIV and won the first LIV event of 2026. An 8th place finish in LIV Hong Kong in March might have lit up hopes for this week, but +6 for his first nine holes have dampened those hopes significantly. A late LIV season injury didn't help Smylie and he has slipped to 165th on Conrad Golf Ranking

The latest intention confirmed. Louis Ossthuizen confirms LIV 2.0 won't be for him.