'PO 2nd Round Champ' Bradley, World Ranking Moves from 22nd to 11th

BMW Championship Victory Ranking Points Earned
Scheffler, Schauffele, McIlroy Maintain 'Top 3'
Im Sungjae 20th, Kim Juhyung 22nd, An Byunghun 34th

Keegan Bradley (USA) has risen to 11th place in the world rankings.

Keegan Bradley is smiling while holding the trophy immediately after winning the BMW Championship.
[Castle Rock, USA=Photo by AFP and Yonhap News]

In the men's golf weekly world rankings announced on the 25th (local time), he earned 4.40 points and jumped 11 spots from 22nd place last week. He accumulated points by winning the second FedEx Cup Playoffs (PO) event, the BMW Championship (total prize money $20 million), held at Castle Pines Golf Club (par 72, 8,130 yards) in Castle Rock, Colorado, USA, by one stroke (12 under par 276). This marks his 7th career victory, his first in 1 year and 2 months since winning the Travelers Championship last June, with a winner's prize of $3.6 million (approximately 4.8 billion KRW). Bradley, who was ranked 50th in the FedEx Cup standings, jumped to 4th place with this tournament win.

Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele (both USA), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Ludvig ?berg (Sweden), and Wyndham Clark (USA) maintained their positions in the 'Top 5'. In Korea, Im Sung-jae holds the highest ranking at 20th place. Kim Joo-hyung is 22nd, An Byeong-hun 34th, and Kim Si-woo is ranked 49th. Im Sung-jae and An Byeong-hun will participate in the PO final event, the Tour Championship, starting from the 29th.