American Express Victory 4061-Step Leap
Scheffler, McIlroy, Rahm, Hovland Maintain 1st to 4th
Kim Juhyung 15th, Im Sungjae 28th, An Byunghun 41st
Twenty-year-old amateur Nick Dunlap (USA) has soared to world ranking 68.
Amateur Nick Dunlap is cheering while holding the trophy right after winning the American Express. [La Quinta, USA = AP·Yonhap News]
In the men's golf weekly world rankings announced on the afternoon of the 21st (local time), he received 1.3922 points, jumping an astonishing 4,061 places from 4,129th last week. He accumulated points by winning the American Express (total prize money $8.4 million), which concluded that morning at the Pete Dye Stadium Course (par 72) in La Quinta, California, USA. This is the first amateur victory in 33 years since Phil Mickelson (USA) won the Northern Telecom Open in 1991. He became the highest-ranked player in the world as an amateur.
Scottie Scheffler (USA), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Jon Rahm (Spain), Viktor Hovland (Norway), and Xander Schauffele (USA) maintained their positions from 1st to 5th respectively. South Korea's Kim Joo-hyung is ranked 15th, Im Sung-jae 28th, An Byeong-hun 41st, and Kim Si-woo is in 47th place.
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