The OWGR is seldom criticized for determining the 100 top-ranked players who are usually invited to play in the PGA Championship, or the 50 who automatically receive Masters invitations, But when the algorithm spits out the name of a No. 1 player who has not won a major recently, or at all, that's another story.

WSJ: McIlroy,Donald and Westwood: How Golf Crowns Its World No. 1 | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport