OWGR -Week #33

It's been a looong (and wet) weekend!
But a Sergio Garcia win on the PGA Tour is such a rara avis these days, that it's certainly well worth waiting for!
Wat a great response from the brilliant Spaniard just when it was required most of him for a number of reasons.
And on top of all that he is jumping back inside the top 20 in the world, at #17. Excellent week also for Tim Clark,
who's climbing back inside the top 100 (#90) and for the young Bud Cauley, moving up to a carreer best #64.

Congrats also to Toshinori Muto, winner on the Japanese Tour and climbing up close to the top 100, somewhere around #110. And finally well done to the Italian Alessandro Tadini and Texan Shawn Stefani, winners on the CT and Web.com Tour this week, respectively, moving both up somewhere around #325-330...

The OWGR table after week #33 should look as follows:

1 Rory McIlroy
2 Luke Donald
3 Tiger Woods
4 Lee Westwood
5 Webb Simpson
6 Adam Scott
7 Bubba Watson
8 Justin Rose
9 Jason Dufner
10 Steve Stricker
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11 Matt Kuchar
12 Keegan Bradley
13 Graeme McDowell
14 Zach Johnson
15 Hunter Mahan
16 Louis Oosthuizen
17 Sergio Garcia
18 Ernie Els
19 Dustin Johnson
20 Phil Mickelson
21 Rickie Fowler
22 Charl Schwartzel
23 Ian Poulter
24 Martin Kaymer
25 Jason Day
26 Francesco Molinari
27 Bo Van Pelt
28 Jim Furyk
29 Brandt Snedeker
30 Bill Haas
31 Peter Hanson
32 Carl Pettersson
33 Nicolas Colsaerts
34 Paul Lawrie
35 Nick Watney
36 John Senden
37 David Toms
38 K.J. Choi
39 David Lynn
40 Martin Laird
41 Thomas Bjorn
42 Geoff Ogilvy
43 Fredrik Jacobson
44 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano
45 Rafael Cabrera Bello
46 Simon Dyson
47 Bae Sang-moon
48 Aaron Baddeley
49 Mark Wilson
50 Alvaro Quiros
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51 Jonathan Byrd
52 Branden Grace
53 Kevin Na
54 Scott Piercy
55 Robert Garrigus
56 Kyle Stanley
57 Ben Crane
58 Jamie Donaldson
59 Anders Hansen
60 Marcel Siem
61 Padraig Harrington
62 Robert Karlsson
63 Alexander Noren
64 Bud Cauley
65 Ben Curtis
66 Michael Thompson
67 John Huh
68 Greg Chalmers
69 Retief Goosen
70 Robert Rock
71 Ryo Ishikawa
72 Vijay Singh
73 Miguel A Jimenez
74 Marc Leishman
75 Johnson Wagner
76 K.T. Kim
77 Rory Sabbatini
78 Bernd Wiesberger
79 Matteo Manassero
80 Hiroyuki Fujita
81 Ryan Moore
82 Y.E. Yang
83 Marcus Fraser
84 George Coetzee
85 Ted Potter-jr
86 Spencer Levin
87 Jeev Milkha Singh
88 Charles Howell-III
89 Thorbjorn Olesen
90 Tim Clark
91 Gary Woodland
92 Pablo Larrazabal
93 Ryan Palmer
94 Darren Clarke
95 Toru Taniguchi
96 Joost Luiten
97 Brendan Jones
98 Brian Davis
99 D.A. Points
100 Paul Casey
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101 Noh Seung-yul
102 Charlie Wi
103 Jeff Overton
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Order is restored!
Sergio in the Top Twenty, Tim Clark back up to #90.
Sergio must have a great chance at Bethpage this week . . . . . .

Time for Jason Day to hit the skids, as Ryo has done at last.

Thanks pd, Still not sure why you couldn't post this last night . . . . .

Can't be much difference from #6-#9 in the rankings.

Hanson withdraws so apparently there are now insufficient owgr points for David Lynn to qualify automatically.

I just read in Ryan Ballengee GolfNewsNet blog that Gleneagles has been downgraded to level 30.

That means Colsaerts needs a 3-way tie for 2nd or better to pass Kaymer. Lynn and RCB have no chance to qualify automatically.

http://thegolfnewsnet.com/ryan_ballengee/2012/08/20/nicolas-colsaerts-ryder-cup-team/

There have been a few WDs from Gleneagles and indeed, at the moment it looks like it will slip in the 30 point bracket. Barclays looks to be pretty hefty this year @~74pts (up from 70 last year), but both will need TBC as the week goes on...

I forgot from last year, what's the FedEx rule when someone in the top 125 WDs? Is no. 126 moving in or not? At the moment I see the field published is 124 (presume because of Dufner)...

Only the top 125 are eligible regardless of defections from within that number. 126 not qualified.

Decent field in the web.commer this week, Knox, Chopra and half a dozen others not destined for Bethpage.

Cheers kwin. Not a nice rule...
Sadly Levin is out as well due to the sudden passing of his brother...
Down to 123 then...

princedracula wrote:There have been a few WDs from Gleneagles and indeed, at the moment it looks like it will slip in the 30 point bracket. Barclays looks to be pretty hefty this year @~74pts (up from 70 last year), but both will need TBC as the week goes on...

I forgot from last year, what's the FedEx rule when someone in the top 125 WDs? Is no. 126 moving in or not? At the moment I see the field published is 124 (presume because of Dufner)...

It's posted on European Tour website as a 30 pointer therefore there only (by my calcs) ONLY Colsaerts can make the team and ONLY Kaymer can lose out. The permutations are simple, Colsaerts must finish no worse than a 3 way tie for 2nd.................

Not only that, but at the moment is just hanging on the fringe of the 30 pts bracket after Paul Casey has vanished as well from the field... So, if anything, it could even slip down to 28 pts (started with 34 based on the initial list about a week ago) if this trend continues...

Under normal circumstances, Colsaerts would have withdrawn given the Monday finish in the US.

The tournament sponsors and the European Tour are grateful to him for playing seeing as his performance is the "only show in town" as regards the RC.............

So what are Luke and Tigers chances of at #1.

Pretty sure the only way Tiger can get #1 is a win and about a 14th or worse from Rory

I believe Luke can get to #1 with a 1st or 2nd with some help from Rory.

Totally forgot we were being treated to AWT's Bethpage black. Can tiger use memories of old to boost his chances of the jackpot? Is Glover even into the barclays?

Glover is on Late Summer vacation. He wasn't even close to qualifying.

Projections for #1 this week (if Barclays is worth 74pts):

To remain #1, Rory needs to:

- finish in a 2-way tie for 5th or better, if Tiger wins
- finish in a 3-way tie for 2nd or better, if Luke wins
- finish solo 51st or better, if Luke finishes solo 2nd (and if Tiger is not the winner, of course)

Lee can't reach no. 3 even if he wins...
And it'll be bye-bye top 100 for Paul Casey... hopefully we'll see him back in there again soon... DC and Gary Woodland are the next notables getting ever closer to that dreaded exit...

Harrington could move as high as #33 with a win, but if Garcia wins once again, he could jump up all the way to #6!

Final count:

- Barclays @ 74 pts
- Johnnie Walker @ 30 pts

Watney could climb as high as #16 with win...

prince

Am i right in thinking lawrie goes to about 26th?