Of the many records held by Tiger Woods that will likely never be broken, his mark of 683 weeks spent as the No. 1 golfer in the world (including a streak of more than five years as No. 1) might be the most untouchable.
Greg Norman is the only other player in history with more than 100 weeks at No. 1 since the ranking system officially stated in 1986, and the Shark is more than 300 weeks behind Tiger. Rory McIlroy has the most weeks at No. 1 of any active golfer with 95, but with so much parity among golf's elite, it's highly unlikely any one player will stay atop the ranking for long.
Since Woods has been away from the game, however - he last played competitively at the 2015 Wyndham Championship - his ranking has continued to plummet.
Two years ago, Woods was in the mid 250s, but with no events played and no ranking points accumulated, Woods will tee it up Thursday at the Hero World Challenge ranked 898th in the world. This is a guy who, three years ago, won five PGA Tour events and won the player of the year award.
Unfortunately for Tiger, those victories are no longer counted in his ranking. The OWGR system takes every golfer's result over the last two year period. In that span, Tiger's only played 12 events that count toward his world ranking, and he missed the cut or withdrew in five of those tournaments. Regardless of his result this weekend, he should see a massive boost to his ranking just for finishing an event.
