Tuesday, July 1, 2008

GIANT LEAP FOR LARRAZABAL

GIANT LEAP FOR LARRAZABAL

New Spanish sensation Pablo Larrazabal has moved up a total of 343 places on the world rankings thanks to his French Open victory.

The European Tour rookie beat Colin Montgomerie by four strokes and improves from 481st to 138th.

Montgomerie is back in the top 100 at 77th through his runners-up finish, while American Kenny Perry is up to 19th following his second US Tour victory of the month.

Current leading places in the world rankings:

1 Tiger Woods 20.73, 2 Phil Mickelson 9.94, 3 Geoff Ogilvy 5.66, 4 Adam Scott 5.64, 5 Ernie Els 5.53, 6 Stewart Cink 5.44, 7 Steve Stricker 5.13, 8 Sergio Garcia 5.10, 9 Justin Rose 5.09, 10 KJ Choi 4.96

11 Vijay Singh 4.95, 12 Padraig Harrington 4.76, 13 Jim Furyk 4.73, 14 Trevor Immelman 4.58, 15 Rory Sabbatini 4.51, 16 Henrik Stenson 4.48, 17 Lee Westwood 4.29, 18 Luke Donald 3.87, 19 Kenny Perry 3.78, 20 Anthony Kim 3.76

Other leading Europeans:

21 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 23 Robert Karlsson, 30 Martin Kaymer, 40 Ian Poulter, 42 Niclas Fasth, 44 Paul Casey, 47 Oliver Wilson, 55 Anders Hansen, 59 Nick Dougherty, 70 Carl Pettersson, 72 Graeme McDowell, 77 Colin Montgomerie, 79 Soren Kjeldsen, 85 Daniel Chopra, 88 Steve Webster, 89 Fredrik Jacobson, 91 Peter Hanson, 94 Alastair Forsyth


SMALL ADVANCE FOR WESTWOOD
The official fairplay rankings
IN-FORM MONTY OUTSHONE BY ROOKIE