# created by Mark Holton  (holtonma@gmail.com)
# copy as much as you want to
# 10-29-2008
# purpose: scrape the official world golf ranking, and present it in a more usable form (TBD: Array of Hashes, maybe)
# using Hpricot, open-uri (later might switch to Nokogiri instead of Hpricot)

...Official Golf World Ranking OGWR... code that grabs the official golf world rankings... use the data as you wish in 
your own application... released as open source...

code: http://github.com/holtonma/ogwr/tree/master/ogwr_scraper.rb
test: http://github.com/holtonma/ogwr/tree/master/test_ogwr_scraper.rb

enables anyone to take this site...
http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/rankings/default.sps

grab all the data, and do with it what you wish (store to a database each week, hold in your database to related to 
players on your website, etc).  Some boogs, but it's decent for a start:

Tiger Woods 1
Phil Mickelson 2
Sergio Garcia 3
Vijay Singh 4
Padraig Harrington 5
Robert Karlsson 6
Camilo Villegas 7
Anthony Kim 8
Ernie Els 9
Henrik Stenson 10
Lee Westwood 11
Jim Furyk 12
Steve Stricker 13
Stewart Cink 14
K.J. Choi 15
Justin Rose 16
Adam Scott 17
Geoff Ogilvy 18
Kenny Perry 19
Miguel A 20
Mike Weir 21
Trevor Immelman 22
Justin Leonard 23
Ian Poulter 24
Ben Curtis 25
Rory Sabbatini 26
Luke Donald 27
Aaron Baddeley 28
Stephen Ames 29
Robert Allenby 30
Andres Romero 31
Graeme McDowell 32
Stuart Appleby 33
Ross Fisher 34
Zach Johnson 35
Angel Cabrera 36
Martin Kaymer 37
Hunter Mahan 38
Boo Weekley 39
Tim Clark 40
Paul Casey 41
Soren Hansen 42
Shingo Katayama 43
Woody Austin 44
Kevin Sutherland 45
Sean O'Hair 46
Retief Goosen 47
Dudley Hart 48
Carl Pettersson 49
Fredrik Jacobson 50
...
...
Ignacio Garrido 251
Rich Beem 252
Tim Wilkinson 253
Toyokazu Fujishima 254
Chris Wood 255
Roland Thatcher 256
Makoto Inoue 257
Jason Gore 258
D.A. Points 259
Jean-F Lucquin 260
David Gleeson 261
Brendon Todd 262
David Frost 263
Colt Knost 264
Charles Warren 265
Marc Leishman 266
Jesper Parnevik 267
Stephen Gallacher 268
Juvic Pagunsan 269
Jeppe Huldahl 270
Casey Wittenberg 271
Kris Blanks 272
Paul Waring 273
Richard Johnson 274
Brian Bateman 275
Tim Petrovic 276
Michael Jonzon 277
Kenichi Kuboya 278
Keiichiro Fukabori 279
Koumei Oda 280
Daniel Vancsik 281
Jon Mills 282
David Dixon 283
John Ellis 284
Maarten Lafeber 285
Fredrik Andersson 286
Klas Eriksson 287
Chapchai Nirat 288
Mark Hensby 289
Alejandro Canizares 290
Yusaku Miyazato 291
David Mathis 292
Shane Bertsch 293
Steve Allan 294
Antti Ahokas 295
S.S.P. Chowrasia 296
Daniel Summerhays 297
Martin Erlandsson 298
Alessandro Tadini 299
Jeff Klauk 300