OWGR - Week #34

Congratulations to Nick Watney and to Paul Lawrie for their convincing wins this week! This is more than welcome news particularly for Nice Guy Nick, who's descent down the rankings was begining to gather pace after a very mediocre year by his standards, but now he finds himself suddenly proppelled back up inside the top 20 in the world (at #19), together with the runner up from Barclays, Brandt Snedeker (up at #20). Hard luck to Sergio Garcia in the end, but his great couple of weeks are seeing him now sitting pretty inside the top 15 in the world (#14), while Dustin Johnson is moving up to #16. Paul Lawrie's 30 point 'earnings' for his win in Scotland are only enough to move him up 4 places to #30.

Congrats also to the Korean Kim Hyung Sung, who won the Vana H Cup @ Augusta (in Japan) and will jump up around 70 places somewhere around #170. We've mentioned already the historic performnace of Kristoffer Broberg from Sweden whose 3rd win on the Challenge Tour in only four weeks earns him automatic promotion to the big European league as well as a jump inside the top 200, somewhere just behind Kim Hyung Sung. We should be able to see him now at work against the big boys as early as next week, in Switzerland. And finally, well done to the American Darron Stiles, winner of the Web.com event in Knoxville and climbing up around #260 as a result...

The OWGR table after week #34 should look as follows:

1 Rory McIlroy
2 Luke Donald
3 Tiger Woods
4 Lee Westwood
5 Webb Simpson
6 Bubba Watson
7 Jason Dufner
8 Justin Rose
9 Adam Scott
10 Steve Stricker
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11 Matt Kuchar
12 Keegan Bradley
13 Graeme McDowell
14 Sergio Garcia
15 Zach Johnson
16 Dustin Johnson
17 Louis Oosthuizen
18 Hunter Mahan
19 Nick Watney
20 Brandt Snedeker
21 Ernie Els
22 Phil Mickelson
23 Rickie Fowler
24 Charl Schwartzel
25 Francesco Molinari
26 Ian Poulter
27 Martin Kaymer
28 Bo Van Pelt
29 Jason Day
30 Paul Lawrie
31 Jim Furyk
32 Carl Pettersson
33 Bill Haas
34 Peter Hanson
35 Nicolas Colsaerts
36 John Senden
37 David Toms
38 K.J. Choi
39 David Lynn
40 Martin Laird
41 Thomas Bjorn
42 Geoff Ogilvy
43 Gonzalo Fdez-C.
44 Fredrik Jacobson
45 Rafael Cabrerra-Bello
46 Simon Dyson
47 Bae Sang-Moon
48 Aaron Baddeley
49 Mark Wilson
50 Alvaro Quiros
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51 Branden Grace
52 Jonathan Byrd
53 Scott Piercy
54 Kevin Na
55 Jamie Donaldson
56 Robert Garrigus
57 Kyle Stanley
58 Bud Cauley
59 Padraig Harrington
60 Marcel Siem
61 Greg Chalmers
62 Ben Crane
63 Anders Hansen
64 Alexander Noren
65 John Huh
66 Robert Karlsson
67 Michael Thompson
68 Ben Curtis
69 Retief Goosen
70 Robert Rock
71 Tim Clark
72 Vijay Singh
73 Mark Leishman
74 Miguel Jimenez
75 Ryo Ishikawa
76 Johnson Wagner
77 Ryan Moore
78 Hiroyuki Fujita
79 Kim Kyung-Tae
80 Rory Sabbatini
81 Bernd Wiesberger
82 Matteo Manassero
83 Marcus Fraser
84 Y.E. Yang
85 Thorbjorn Olesen
86 George Coetzee
87 Jeev Milkha Singh
88 Spencer Levin
89 Ryan Palmer
90 Charles Howell III
91 Ted Potter Jr.
92 Pablo Larazabal
93 Gary Woodland
94 Toru Taniguchi
95 Joost Luiten
96 Darren Clarke
97 Brian Davis
98 D.A. Points
99 Brendan Jones
100 Noh Seung-Yul
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101 Charlie Wi
102 John Rollins
103 Jeff Overton
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#39. Ricky Barnes?

pd, Phil Mickelson down to #22. Bet that's a surprise to him.

More upward mobility from Tim Clark. He's not that far away now!

Thanks

I think this is the first time Mickelson has been out of the top 20 since early 1994. Over 18 years.

And Yes, Ricky Barnes, where did he come from? He was 176th last week. Who knew a T24th could do so much for your ranking.

GPB wrote:And Yes, Ricky Barnes, where did he come from? He was 176th last week. Who knew a T24th could do so much for your ranking.

Well, he must've come there from my bad dreams last night... A silly Sunday midnight mistake, obviously... Fixed now! Thanks, GPB.

Early count for this week:

- Deutsche Bank @ ~74 pts (up from 70 last year)
- Omega Masters @ ~32 pts (big drop from 44 pts last year)

Same story in #1 chase: Tiger can overtake Rory only with win, Luke can do that with a win or a solo 2nd...

What does Harrington need to get back into the top 50?

sirbenson wrote:What does Harrington need to get back into the top 50?

In theory 17th or better should give him a chance, but practically, considering other results that may interfere with that, I'd say a top 10 or so...

Ok he has been around it since the US OPEN, time to start turning these finishes from 10th place to 20th into TOP 10S AND 5S

Cheers pd, I enjoy your weekly round-up!

Cheers, guys.

Tiger will go back to world #1 if he wins and if Rory finishes worse than in a 3-way tie for 4th (if he finishes solo 5th, Tiger also goes to #1)

If Luke wins he goes to #1 if Rory finishes worse than a 3-way tie for 2nd.
If Luke finishes solo 2nd (and Tiger doesn't win) he goes to #1 if Rory finishes worse than solo 26th.
Lee can't move higher than 4th even with a win this week...

princedracula wrote:
Lee can't move higher than 4th even with a win this week...

so he's already 4th and even a win doesn't impove it? something sounds wrong there

Unfortunately for Lee, there's nothing wrong with that slowride, he is just too far behind the other three to catch 3rd spot even with a win...

Final count:

- Deutsche Bank @ 74 pts
- Omega Masters @ 32 pts

If Rory would go on to win this week, he's guarranteed to stay at #1 also after next week's BMW, regardless of any other results this week and next...

If Ramsay and Laird maintain their recent form, title of second-ranked Scot in Golf will switch from Glasgow/Scottsdale to Aberdeen.

Consolidation of good US form by Donaldson and Lynn. Good to see.

Good news for JamieD is that his consistent good results are begining to show in his owgr rankings. He's currently moved up to #50 (!), but is pretty unlikely he'll still be there come Monday night. 50 spots lower down, DC is hanging on desperately to the #100 spot, but more than likely he'll be knocked out by Noh, Overton and possibly others from Boston. The real problem for him is... when (if) are we gonna see him back inside the top 100!?

Also, provisionally until Monday evening, Ramsay is up to #68, while KT Kim moves up to #64 (back to the winning circle in Japan)...

Latinoamerica gets cracking this week with a visit to the Yucatan.

One or two vaguely familiar names (Canete, a Serna, Ruiz, Burgoon, Garza, etc, etc and even Manuel Villegas - but no Camilo . . . . yet anyway) but not quite so cosmopolitan as Ian Dury might have imagined:
In the deserts of Sudan
And the gardens of Japan
From Milan To Yucatan
Every Woman, Every man
Hit me with your rhythm stick!