OWGR - Week #13

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There was no No. 1 drama this week, but there was plenty of drama around the top 50 cutline instead, as the Masters is approaching now very fast…

Great win for DA Points at the Shell Houston Open, no. 14 win out of 14 events for team USA this year on the PGA Tour. DA is making a comeback to the top 100, climbing all the way to #70 and as far as I’m aware this represents a career best. Fantastic effort by both Stenson and Horschel finishing T2nd. It is Stenson’s best PGA Tour result for longer than I can remember and coming at the perfect time to secure a Masters ticket for him (up to #42), while for Horschel, this is his best result, full stop (moving somewhere around #130 in the rankings). Good results also for Crane, Cauley and Tringale, and equating to an entry or re-entry inside the top 100 for each one of them.

Congratulations (and to some extent commiserations as well) to Marcel Siem for his well-deserved second career win in Morocco. What more can we add at this point, other than that he is climbing up (only) to #51 in the rankings and hopefully he would’ve learned his lesson and will do what’s necessary to stay at least in the top 60 for the forseable future, so that he could at least qualify for the US Open in June… A nice return to some good form and a good result for David Horsey, moving up to somewhere ~#270, while the other runner up and best ranked Finnish player, Mikko Ilonen, will move inside the top 200.

An Aussie win (at least one outside Oz) is a rare thing these days, so double congrats to Scott Hend for winning in Thailand against a pretty strong field and he will climb somewhere inside the top 180 as a result. And in the end Thongchai Jaidee will not accompany his fellow countryman T. Wiratchant to Augusta… And finally, well done to Ho Sung Choi of Korea, for winning the Indonesian PGA, an event once again co-sanctioned by the OneAsia and Japanese Tours. HS Choi will move up somewhere just inside #330s.

Otherwise, talking of Koreans, it’s bye-bye top 100 for KT Kim, which means that now Korea has only two players left inside the top 100, and none inside the top 80! It’s a far cry from what we use to have only about a year ago, when there were 4 of them inside the top 50. Too much Gangnam style and not enough decent golf results coming from there over the past year or so…

The OWGR table after week #13 should look as follows:

1 Tiger Woods
2 Rory McIlroy
3 Justin Rose
4 Luke Donald
5 Brandt Snedeker
6 Louis Oosthuizen
7 Adam Scott
8 Steve Stricker
9 Matt Kuchar
10 Phil Mickelson
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11 Keegan Bradley
12 Ian Poulter
13 Lee Westwood
14 Bubba Watson
15 Charl Schwartzel
16 Sergio Garcia
17 Graeme McDowell
18 Jason Dufner
19 Dustin Johnson
20 Webb Simpson
21 Hunter Mahan
22 Peter Hanson
23 Nick Watney
24 Ernie Els
25 Bo Van Pelt
26 Jim Furyk
27 Zach Johnson
28 Gonzalo Fdez-C.
29 Rickie Fowler
30 Bill Haas
31 Martin Kaymer
32 Branden Grace
33 Jamie Donaldson
34 Paul Lawrie
35 Carl Pettersson
36 Francesco Molinari
37 Scott Piercy
38 Robert Garrigus
39 Jason Day
40 Thorbjorn Olesen
41 Nicolas Colsaerts
42 Henrik Stenson
43 George Coetzee
44 Ryan Moore
45 Michael Thompson
46 Matteo Manassero
47 Fredrik Jacobson
48 John Senden
49 Richard Sterne
50 Russell Henley
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51 Marcel Siem
52 Padraig Harrington
53 Hiroyuki Fujita
54 Charles Howell III
55 Geoff Ogilvy
56 Alexander Noren
57 David Lynn
58 Tim Clark
59 Thongchai Jaidee
60 Luke Guthrie
61 Chris Wood
62 Thomas Bjorn
63 Greg Chalmers
64 Marcus Fraser
65 Stephen Gallacher
66 Rafael Cabrerra-Bello
67 Jimmy Walker
68 Anders Hansen
69 Charlie Beljan
70 D.A. Points
71 Jaco Van Zyl
72 Shane Lowry
73 Brendan de Jonge
74 Chris Kirk
75 David Toms
76 Richie Ramsay
77 Bernd Wiesberger
78 Kevin Streelman
79 Scott Jamieson
80 John Merrick
81 Thaworn Wiratchant
82 Miguel A. Jimenez
83 K.J. Choi
84 Darren Fichardt
85 Kiradech Aphibarnrat
86 Bae Sang-Moon
87 Thomas Aiken
88 Mark Wilson
89 Gaganjeet Bhullar
90 Ben Crane
91 Danny Willett
92 Kristoffer Broberg
93 Brendan Jones
94 Kevin Na
95 John Huh
96 Bud Cauley
97 Aaron Baddeley
98 Josh Teater
99 Jonas Blixt
100 Cameron Tringale
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101 Kevin Stadler
102 Kyle Stanley
103 Graham DeLaet
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Another 60-something should ratify Marcel Siem's place inside the Top 50 and you'd think might be enough to keep him there thru qualifying date for the US Open . . . . . and a really good finish would wrap up David Lynn's Merion ticket also.
Having a very good start to his Tour career - impressive.

princedracula wrote:Final count:

- Valero @ 44 points (once again, just makes it on the number)

Yep... OWGR put out a spreadsheet this week which confirms 241/44