OWGR - Week #44

I have to go out in a few minutes, so I won't have time for any details right now...
Congratulations to all the winners this week!
- Sergio moves back to where he belongs, in the top 20 (#18)
- Bo Van Pelt jumps up to #25 (probably a carreer best, didn't check it properly...)
- Tiger drops only one spot to #56
- more maybe later.....

The OWGR table after week #44 should look like this:

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

Given the quality of the fields the next three weeks, there'll be significant changes - those in the owgr 40's who haven't played in a while and will have their feet up in November - Martin Laird if he's not in China, Zach Johnson, even Ben Crane, Ryan Moore will really start to lose position.

Crane and Johnson the 2 bible thumpers, really cannot take to either wonder why! Shame because I do rate Zach as a player. Then there's Laird again not a fan as most know (Mac will now come try to force his opinion on why I should like Laird) in all honesty though out of those 3 the only one I rate as a top 50 player is the Zacher!

Ryan moore not seen much of hin this year has it been an indifferent season or his he just not getting the coverage, I loke the guy, way he plays and dresses and the facy he comes across as the type of guy that just says "this is me and no more"

Great to see El Nino moving back up into top 20 hope he puts his foot down and motors back into top 10. Also well done Bo don't know why but quite like the fella any ideas why he hasn't won more!

Great to see the mechanic, er, motoring back up the rankings, was getting perilously close to the 50 bubble but should be safe for Augusta now.

Laird needs to get off his arse and start playing, not bothering to make the trip to China when exempt, no idea when his next appearance is scheduled to be.

Mav,
I think your mate Bo comes up short a lot because he putts under pressure like the hole is the size of a thimble. (And I know where you prefer things the size of thimbles to be.) Great striker of the ball, lots of top twenties, only one Official win.

Don't understand Laird either - he played in Asia last year and that form helped him start 2011 in fine form. Perhaps he's enjoying a belated honeymoon and has a Ryder Cup-centric 2012 planned? But the HSBC is just too big for anyone in his position to miss.

Great week indeed for the two star Spaniards.
Pitty if Sergio is not playing the HSBC this week. It's all academic, but if he would've played and won that as well, he could've jumped back into the top 10 (#9 max)...

princedracula wrote:Great week indeed for the two star Spaniards.
Pitty if Sergio is not playing the HSBC this week. It's all academic, but if he would've played and won that as well, he could've jumped back into the top 10 (#9 max)...

Yeah im disappointed hes not playing but last 2 weeks probably took a lot of him more mentally than anything. He looked quite emotional when he won yesterday.

is he definitley not playing HSBC? i hadnt heard this. i presumed he would be!

Sand spotted the news on Skysports, and I've seen it also on their website...

No World Ranking points for Shanghai???

Hi John,
Not an official event on any Tour and the field fails to conform to owgr criteria, so the whole thing is little more than a glorified skins game. But kudos to Rory for winning it.

Cheers Kwini...........wonder why they went then!!!!

Rory within touching distance of Westwood and carrying the better form into WGE this week. A good finish relative to Westwood and he will become 2nd for the first time.

Woods down to 56th and not in the WGE so will drop further. How low will he go until he starts to play a fuller schedule and starts to get some decent finishes.

John Cregan wrote:...wonder why they went then!!!!

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Scottie, I posted a few weeks ago some projections for Tiger, and I think I said he should drop somewhere in the #56-61 bracket by the time he'll be playing next time. I think that still holds pretty well considering that he's now #56 and he'll be playing next week at the Ausie Open... There is the chance that he could drop even further after this week, of course, if the planets are aligning the wrong way for him. One thing looks certain, he will drop at least one place to #57 behind Mark Wilson, no matter what happens...

As for Rory moving to #2 after HSBC, just to give an example, he needs something like a top 15 finish with Lee not scoring, in other words a difference of ~7-8 points between them, in Rory's favour, of course...

Should be two high-earners next week with Singapore and the Aussie Open.
Can't find an updated list of commitments for Sydney . . . . .

There it is, it's final and quite fresh. Between that and Singapore you probably should find most of the PresCup teams members...

http://www.pga.org.au/site/_content/document/00041765-source.pdf

I'll have a check later on the estimated owgr points, but the proper count should be done next week...

Great! Thanks!!
Sponsored by The Emirates? Where's Poulter??

Yes, looks like that takes care of just about everyone, except Steve Stricker. I'll draw the conclusion from his absence that Keegan Bradley will be getting a call from Freddie - while he's in Singapore with Phil, Webbo and Furyk.

Yep, good to see Norman in the field as well as Couples...