OWGR - Week #48

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Glad to see that two of the players I followed for a little while a few months ago at the Irish Open, Gonzo and Otto, went on after that and are having probably the best spells of their carreers so far. There was no real sign of that happening for either of them when I saw them down in Killarney last July, as they both missed the cut there...

Anyway, congratulations to the three winners this week: Greg Chalmers at the Australian PGA, Hennie Otto at the South African Open and Tadahiro Takayama at the Casio World Open in Japan. As a result Chalmers continues his unexpected but impressive climb up the rankings to #63, Otto will be climbing ~100 spots to somwhere around #120s, while Takayama-san should jump up somwhere in the same area as Otto.

Other significant moves this week are from Baddley who gets into a safer position (#44) inside the top 50, Allenby who finally reverses the downward trend with a 12 place jump back into the top 60 and Thomas Aiken who gets back into the top 100. With their runner up places, Wiesberger is consolidating his positin as the best Austrian golfer with a jump somewhere into the 160s, while Marcus Fraser should end up inside the top 140. Finally, Tiger is pushed one spot further down (#52) by Goosen who missed a very good opportunity this week to get back into top 50.

The OWGR table after week #48 should look as follows:

1 Luke Donald
2 Rory McIlroy
3 Lee Westwood
4 Martin Kaymer
5 Dustin Johnson
6 Steve Stricker
7 Adam Scott
8 Jason Day
9 Webb Simpson
10 Nick Watney
11 Matt Kuchar
12 Phil Mickelson
13 Carl Schwartzel
14 Graeme McDowell
15 K.J. Choi
16 Justin Rose
17 Sergio Garcia
18 Bubba Watson
19 Hunter Mahan
20 David Toms
21 Paul Casey
22 Bill Haas
23 Kim Kyung-Tae
24 Bo Van Pelt
25 Ian Poulter
26 Bae Sang-Moon
27 Keegan Bradley
28 Rickie Fowler
29 Robert Karlsson
30 Brandt Snedeker
31 Simon Dyson
32 Thomas Bjorn
33 Anders Hansen
34 Fredrik Jacobson
35 Jason Dufner
36 Louis Oosthuizen
37 Francesco Molinari
38 Darren Clarke
39 Geoff Ogilvy
40 Miguel Jimenez
41 John Senden
42 Y.E. Yang
43 Martin Laird
44 Aaron Baddeley
45 Jim Furyk
46 Gonzalo Fdez-C.
47 Zach Johnson
48 Gary Woodland
49 Ryo Ishikawa
50 Alvaro Quiros
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51 Retief Goosen
52 Tiger Woods
53 Peter Hanson
54 Ben Crane
55 Ernie Els
56 Matteo Manassero
57 Ryan Moore
58 Jonathan Byrd
59 Robert Allenby
60 Mark Wilson
61 Vijay Singh
62 Edoardo Molinari
63 Greg Chalmers
64 Alexander Noren
65 Rory Sabbatini
66 Chez Reavie
67 Kevin Na
68 Joost Luiten
69 Lucas Glover
70 Toru Taniguchi
71 Ryan Palmer
72 Jeff Overton
73 Yuta Ikeda
74 Anthony Kim
75 Charles Howell III
76 Nicolas Colsaerts
77 Charley Hoffman
78 Sean O'Hair
79 Brendan Jones
80 Tim Clark
81 Padraig Harrington
82 Camilo Villegas
83 Scot Verplank
84 Jamie Donaldson
85 Pablo Larazabal
86 Koumei Oda
87 Hiroyuki Fujita
88 Spencer Levin
89 George Coetzee
90 Ross Fisher
91 Tetsuji Hiratsuka
92 Richard Green
93 Thomas Aiken
94 Tommy Gainey
95 Chris Kirk
96 Stephen Marino
97 David Lynn
98 J.B. Holmes
99 Robert Garrigus
100 Fredrik A. Hed
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101 Noh Seung-Yul
102 Raphael Jacquelin
103 Michael Hoey
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No chance of Rob Karlsson reaching the top twenty?

MustPuttBetter wrote:So looking forward to hearing from Keizo.....

22 minutes is all you had to wait MPB...

Ha ha, surprise surprise!

Davie wrote:I will put my neck on the line now and state that I don't think Tiger will win Chevron

OK - happy to admit I was wrong (rather than just letting this comment slide into oblivion) but to me it was far from convincing over a pretty weak field who seemed to capitulate rather easily.

Still, he beat what was in front of him so congrats for that.

I actually really WOULD like to see Tiger back to his best - I just think he's a long way off still