OWGR - Week #41

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Very late finish last night! But better late than never is what could be said for three of the main winners from week#41:
Lee Slattery in Madrid, Rickie Fowler in Korea and Bryce Molder in California, all recording their first wins, so well done to them!
It was also a week with rather small owgr point rewards, which means that there haven't been any significant jumps up inside the top 100 rankings. Except maybe for Fowler who has the most noticeable jump from #36 to #24.
Tiger's return to play hasn't been a disaster, but there are no points to show for it, which means he is now droping one more position to #52.
But there are significant jumps for Slattery (up around 150 places into the top ~170) and Molder (up somewhere around #110).
Not quite a first win in Japan at the Canon Open for Kenichi Kuboya, but it is his first win in almost 10 years...

The OWGR rankings after week #41 should look like this:

1 Luke Donald
2 Lee Westwood
3 Rory McIlroy
4 Steve Stricker
5 Dustin Johnson
6 Martin Kaymer
7 Jason Day
8 Adam Scott
9 Matt Kuchar
10 Phil Mickelson
11 Nick Watney
12 Webb Simpson
13 Carl Schwartzel
14 Graeme McDowell
15 K.J. Choi
16 Bubba Watson
17 Justin Rose
18 David Toms
19 Hunter Mahan
20 Paul Casey
21 Bill Haas
22 Kim Kyung-Tae
23 Ian Poulter
24 Rickie Fowler
25 Robert Karlsson
26 Keegan Bradley
27 Brandt Snedeker
28 Simon Dyson
29 Jim Furyk
30 Thomas Bjorn
31 Francesco Molinari
32 Anders Hansen
33 Jason Dufner
34 Darren Clarke
35 Zach Johnson
36 Martin Laird
37 Geoff Ogilvy
38 Y.E. Yang
39 Bo Van Pelt
40 Retief Goosen
41 Gary Woodland
42 Alvaro Quiros
43 Matteo Manassero
44 Ernie Els
45 Miguel Jimenez
46 Ryo Ishikawa
47 Sergio Garcia
48 Ryan Moore
49 Aaron Baddeley
50 Louis Oosthuizen
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51 Peter Hanson
52 Tiger Woods
53 Jonathan Byrd
54 Vijay Singh
55 Edoardo Molinari
56 Bae Sang-Moon
57 Fredrik Jacobsen
58 Mark Wilson
59 John Senden
60 Robert Allenby
61 Kevin Na
62 Lucas Glover
63 Tim Clark
64 Rory Sabbatini
65 Ryan Palmer
66 Yuta Ikeda
67 Charley Hoffman
68 Charles Howell III
69 Nicolas Colsaerts
70 Sean O'Hair
71 Chez Reavie
72 Alexander Noren
73 Scot Verplank
74 Richard Green
75 Camilo Villegas
76 Tetsuji Hiratsuka
77 Ben Crane
78 Padraig Harrington
79 Chris Kirk
80 Ross Fisher
81 J.B. Holmes
82 Spencer Levin
83 Hiroyuki Fujita
84 Stephen Marino
85 Anthony Kim
86 Tommy Gainey
87 Jeff Overton
88 Jamie Donaldson
89 Brian Davis
90 Fredrik A. Hed
91 Robert Garrigus
92 Brendan Jones
93 Raphael Jacquelin
94 Pablo Larazabal
95 Carl Petersson
96 Joost Luiten
97 Michael Hoey
98 Davis Love III
99 Thomas Aiken
100 Noh Seung-Yul
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101 David Lynn
102 D.A. Points
103 George Coetzee
...

I'd say quite a poor season by their standards, Mav. Els had no top 10 since his win last December in SA, and Oosty almost same since he won over there in early January (just a T9 @ US Open until a couple of weeks ago when he seems to wake up a bit)... In contrast Mahan, although I agree he had no wins and not a particularly spectacular season, but he did have 9 top 10s this year and those points are keeping him still 'warm' up there in the rankings...

I actually quite like Mahan out of the new breed of US players have to admit did not realise he'd had so many top 10's this year certainly going about his business quietly

Is it just the cynic in me that notes that Mahan missed 3 x Major cuts this year, 19th at the PGA, and won 39% of his $3.5M in no-cut events?

He'll never be a consistent winner with his short game.