Monday, June 2, 2008

ROSE ON THE RISE

ROSE ON THE RISE

Justin Rose has replaced Sergio Garcia as Europe's only member of the world's top 10 - and he would have leapt to a career-best third if he had won the Memorial tournament rather than finishing joint second.

Garcia has dropped down to 11th after finishing in a 45th place tie at Muirfield Village on Sunday

In the meantime, Rose, year's European Tour Order of Merit winner moves up from 11th to sixth in the week that sees Colin Montgomerie fall out of the top 100 for the first time since 1990.

Montgomerie, only 58th in the Wales Open, slides from 95th to 102nd, just two places ahead of Darren Clarke, whose fourth place at Celtic Manor maintains his climb through the rankings after being outside the top 200 at the start of the year.

Latest leading positions:

1 Tiger Woods 19.82, 2 Phil Mickelson 10.13, 3 Adam Scott 5.86, 4 Ernie Els 5.84, 5 Geoff Ogilvy 5.59, 6 Justin Rose 5.42, 7 Steve Stricker 5.31, 8 Jim Furyk 5.21, 9 KJ Choi 5.17, 10 Vijay Singh 5.15, 11 Sergio Garcia 5.10, 12 Stewart Cink 4.85, 13 Henrik Stenson 4.76, 14 Padraig Harrington 4.75, 15 Rory Sabbatini 4.71, 16 Trevor Immelman 4.30, 17 Luke Donald 4.12, 18 Aaron Baddeley 3.89, 19 Anthony Kim 3.85, 20 Lee Westwood 3.59

Other leading Europeans:

21 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 26 Robert Karlsson, 30 Ian Poulter, 32 Niclas Fasth, 37 Martin Kaymer, 42 Paul Casey, 46 Oliver Wilson, 52 Nick Dougherty, 54 Soren Hansen, 68 Anders Hansen, 70 Graeme McDowell, 78 Soren Kjeldsen, 79 Carl Pettersson, 80 Daniel Chopra, 82 Steve Webster, 84 Peter Hanson, 89 Bradley Dredge, 93 Fredrik Jacobson, 95 Alastair Forsyth, 99 Simon Dyson


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