Golf Australia

IN MY OPINION

“… GUYS CARED FAR MORE ABOUT THE MONEY-LIST THAN THE WORLD RANKING.”

If there is one thing that I have never really cared about in my career it is my world ranking at any particular moment in time. Okay, it would have been nice to reach No.1 – No.3 was my highest-ever – and I know I was in the top-10 for a bit. But I didn’t really care. Not much anyway.

When it came to the rankings, I took the view that I knew what I knew. If I arrived at a tournament and saw Ernie Els was, say, No.7 in the world, I never took it even remotely seriously. I still thought he was No.2 behind Tiger. If someone had said to me there were six

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