April Launch for World Junior Golf Rankings

Waterville, Ohio, United States: Clarity.Golf has announced the launch of the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings, a new global junior ranking framework, and confirmed that Cicero has been agreed as the official rankings system for the Swifts Schools Golf Tour.

The Swifts Schools Golf Tour encompasses nearly 100 school golf programmes across the United Kingdom and, in practice, defines the landscape of organised competitive school golf in the UK.

Under the agreement, results from Swifts Schools Golf Tour competitions will be posted directly into the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings, forming a foundational component of the system’s initial international rollout.

The first beta test of the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings will take place at Swifts’ inaugural 2026 event during the first week of March. This beta phase will validate data flow, governance, and ranking behaviour in live competition prior to public release.

The official launch of the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings is planned for Masters Week 2026, aligning the system’s debut with one of the most globally recognised moments in the game.

The Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings are designed to bring long-term credibility, transparency, and developmental context to junior golf by replacing fragmented scoreboards and reputation-based authority with a system grounded in verified results, strength of field, consistency, and progression over time.

Bill Bales, Founder of Clarity.Golf, said: “Junior golf needs a rankings system that earns trust through structure and provenance, not personality. Working with Swifts gives Cicero an immediate anchor in one of the most established school golf eco-systems in the world.”

While Swifts events will be a major contributor, the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings are designed to operate independently of any single Tour. The system will incorporate junior tournaments globally, extending well beyond school golf to provide a unified international view across regions, Tours, and graduation years.

Rankings operate on rolling performance windows, normalise for field strength, and are structured to reflect development across seasons and age groups rather than single outcomes.

In parallel with the rankings’ rollout, Clarity.Golf will concurrently launch a highly governed youth derivative of its Cicero performance tool commons, made available free of charge to junior golfers worldwide. This junior-focused commons is designed to provide age-appropriate, developmentally responsible performance insight while maintaining strict safeguards around governance, data use, and athlete well-being.

Bales said: “Cicero is not about labelling juniors early. It’s about telling the truth clearly and fairly, while giving young players access to modern tools that support healthy, long-term development.”

Clarity.Golf also announced a parallel, exclusive long-term alliance with InRange, a leader in instrumented driving range technology. InRange and Cicero will collaborate on on-going programmes to further support youth golf worldwide, including an InRange World Youth Development and Range Competition Programme integrated with the Cicero eco-system and aligned with the Cicero World Junior Golf Rankings.