National Rankings

IJGT - American Junior Golf Association - Golfweek - Junior Golf Scoreboard Rankings
 

Tour Rankings

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The Tour Rankings are one way to determine which players are doing well over the course of the IJGT season. These rankings will be used for preferred registration and selection into the IJGT Major Championships and Invitational events. At the end of the season, the Top 10 in each age division will be named to the All IJGT Team and be honored at the Awards banquet hosted at the Bridgestone Golf Tournament of Champions. IJGT Rankings will also determine which players qualify for exemptions into other prestigious Junior Amateur events.

Only Tour Members are eligible to earn Merit Points toward the Tour Rankings. All IJGT age divisions are included: Boys 15-19, Boys U-14, and Girls Division. A player must have one (1) IJGT event within the season to be ranked and the best five (5) finishes will count towards the rankings. The minimum number of points to appear in standings is 100.

If there are ties for a specific place, the IJGT Merit Points will be split evenly. For example, a three-player tie for 2nd Place would result in each player receiving 850 Merit Points (2550 total points for 2nd, 3rd and 4th, divided evenly among three players). No points are awarded to players who do not finish the competition.

Place Points Place Points
1st 1500 6th 500
2nd 1000 7th 400
3rd 850 8th 300
4th 700 9th 200
5th 600 10th 100

** Major Championships and Invitational Events will be worth double merit points**

If you have any questions, please contact IJGT Player Services at info@IJGT.com.

Polo Golf Rankings

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The Polo Golf Rankings is the proprietary system created by the AJGA to identify and rank the top junior players who have competed in the premier junior golf tournaments in the U.S. These are the specific purposes for which the AJGA uses the Polo Golf Rankings:

  1. to guide the Rolex Junior All-America selection process,
  2. to select or round out AJGA Invitational fields,
  3. and to determine the AJGA Wyndam Cup team, the PING Junior Solheim Cup team, and other international tournament selections.

AJGA Performance Based Entry (PBE)

Performance Based Entry process enables members 12-18 years old to earn their way into AJGA Open tournaments based on performances at the national, regional, and state levels. The entry process clearly defines and answers the question, “How do I gain entry into an AJGA event?” The player‘s performance, not the AJGA, dictates acceptance into an event.

Boys 15-19 and Girls Divisions

The American Junior Golf Association has released their Performance Based Entry Table for International Junior Golf Tour Events. The Tour events included in the AJGA PBE table will be denoted in the Rankings section of the Full Tournament Schedule.

Please stay tuned to the both the IJGT Rankings and the AJGA exemption table at AJGA.org  as it is subject to change before and/or after the IJGT event takes place.

The Boys Champions at each of these tournaments will receive four (4) AJGA Performance Stars, and those that finish in the top five will earn one (1) AJGA Performance Star. The Girls Champions at each of these tournaments will earn four (4) AJGA Performance Stars.

Boys U-14 and Girls U-14 Divisions

AJGA Junior All-Star Series PBE and Full Exempt Status (Boys)

  • AJGA Junior All-Star Series Exemptions Boys U-14: Must be between 12-15 years old throughout the duration of the event to be eligible for the AJGA Junior All-Star Series.
  • Top 15 finishers in the 2011-2012 Boys U-14 IJGT Tour Ranking Point Standing.

AJGA Junior All-Star Series PBE and Full Exempt Status (Girls)

  • AJGA Junior All-Star Series Exemptions: Must be between 12-15 years old throughout the duration of the event to be eligible for the AJGA Junior All-Star Series.
  • Top 3 finishers in the 2011-2012 Girls IJGT Tour Ranking Point Standing. The top 3 girls between the ages of 11-14 will be selected based on the Girls U-19 division rankings.

If you have any questions, please contact Player Services at ajga@ajga.org.

Golfweek/Sagarin Junior Rankings

In 1999 Golfweek Magazine became a title sponsors to the nationally recognized ranking system known as Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index for juniors.

Jeff Sagarin's rating system is based on a mathematical formula that uses a player's won-lost-tied record against other players when they play on the same course on the same day, and the stroke differential between those players, then links all players to one another based on common opponents. The ratings give an indication of who is playing well over the past 52 weeks.

The following list is an explanation of each category Sagarin uses to formulate his rankings:

  1. Power Rating:
    This is NOT a stroke average. The rating is calculated using a player's record, stroke differential and connection to all the other players in the database. However, it does represent the typical score you can expect a player to shoot; the difference between two ratings predicts the difference between two players in a typical round.
  2. Schedule Strength:
    The average strength of each event in which the player has played, calculated using the power ratings of every player
  3. Schedule Rank:
    The player's schedule is ranked by difficulty among the entire database.
  4. Records:
    A player's won-lost-tied record, based on head-to-head competition, in each category. The winner in a 156-player field has a record of 155-0-0, the runner-up is 154-1-0, etc.
  5. Events Played:
    Boys and Girls must play in a total of five (5) events in the rolling 52-week window (* indicates player has not participated in the minimum number of events needed to be ranked).

In order for junior tournaments to be considered to be included in the Golfweek/Titleist Junior rankings database the following conditions are recommended:

  • In order to be considered, a boy’s field must have minimum of 40 boys start the event and a girl’s field must have 12 girls start the event.
  • The event should be considered a regional tournament if not a national tournament.
  • 54-hole events are desired. However, 36-hole events will be considered on a case-by-case basis. If an event is reduced due to inclement weather, it will still count in the database provided that the entire field completes 18 holes.
  • The rankings will only count the oldest age division unless all players play from the same tees and the fields can be combined to create one event.
  • Golfweek reserves the right to add and drop tournaments at any time.

If you have any questions, please contact Lance Ringler at lringler@golfweek.com.

Junior Golf Scoreboard Rankings

The Junior Golf Scoreboard typically receives results for over 1,500 tournaments worldwide and ranks approximately 6,000 - 7,000 players at any one time.

The Junior Golf Scoreboard system is based on a formula that reviews a player's record in 36-hole or longer tournaments over the last 365 days. Tournaments drop out of the calculation after one year. A player must have four (4) events within the year to be ranked.

The criteria are as follows:

  1. Scoring Differential: (65 percent weight)
    The rankings use the best 85% of a player's scores compared to the USGA ratings of the courses they played in competition.
  2. Strength of Field: (25 percent)
    Whom did the player compete against and how strong were the records of their competitors?
  3. Finish: (10 percent)
    Average finish of the competitor with consideration given to the size of the field.