Lucas Glover's US Open victory has taken him from 71st to 18th in the new world rankings. He began the year down at 177th.
Joint runner-up David Duval, meanwhile, has leapt an incredible 740 places to 142nd. The former world number one had missed the cut in seven of his previous nine events and last had a top 10 finish in October 2002.
Latest leading positions:
1 Tiger Woods 10.50, 2 Phil Mickelson 8.59, 3 Paul Casey 6.96, 4 Sergio Garcia 6.40, 5 Henrik Stenson 6.12, 6 Geoff Ogilvy 6.02, 7 Kenny Perry 5.53, 8 Steve Stricker 5.43, 9 Vijay Singh 5.11, 10 Jim Furyk 4.94.
11 Padraig Harrington 4.74, 12 Camilo Villegas 4.67, 13 Sean O'Hair 4.45, 14 Robert Karlsson 4.35, 15 Anthony Kim 3.96, 16 Rory McIlroy 3.81, 17 Ian Poulter 3.80, 18 Lucas Glover 3.70, 19 Ernie Els 3.64, 20 Lee Westwood 3.62
Other leading Europeans:
22 Ross Fisher, 24 Luke Donald, 27 Martin Kaymer, 30 Alvaro Quiros, 37 Soren Kjeldsen, 43 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 46 Graeme McDowell, 48 Justin Rose, 49 Oliver Wilson, 53 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, 55 Soren Hansen, 66 Peter Hanson, 67 Anders Hansen, 76 Francesco Molinari, 77 Anthony Wall, 83 Thomas Levet, 89 Johan Edfors, 94 Fredrik Jacobson.
GLOVER JOINS GREATS
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