Weekly Men's Golf World Rankings Announced
Schauffele 1st, McIlroy 2nd, Rahm 3rd
‘Match King’ Sam Burns (USA) has entered the world’s ‘Top 10’ rankings.
Sam Burns is kissing the trophy immediately after winning the Dell Technologies Match Play[Austin, USA=Photo by AFP·Yonhap News]
Burns ranked 10th in the men’s golf weekly world rankings announced on the afternoon of the 26th (local time). He jumped five spots from 15th place last week. Burns accumulated points by decisively defeating Cameron Young (USA) by 6 holes in the final of the World Golf Championships (WGC) Series Dell Technologies Match Play (total prize money $20 million), which concluded that morning at Austin Country Club (par 71) in Austin, Texas. This marks his fifth career win and first in 10 months since the Charles Schwab Challenge on the PGA Tour last May, with a winner’s prize of $3.5 million (approximately 4.55 billion KRW).
Scottie Scheffler (USA) maintained his No. 1 position, and Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), who finished third in the Match Play, pushed Jon Rahm (Spain) down to third place and took over the No. 2 spot. Cameron Young, the runner-up in the Match Play, rose three spots from 17th to 14th. Matt Wallace (England), who won the PGA Tour Corales Puntacana Championship, jumped from 175th to 117th.
In Korea, Im Sung-jae is ranked 18th, Kim Joo-hyung 19th, and Kim Si-woo maintained 39th place. Lee Kyoung-hoon dropped one spot from 40th to 41st last week. Daichi Ko (Hong Kong), winner of the Asian Tour World City Championship, surged from 1273rd to 589th.
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