Richie Ramsay No 1 for 10th week in a row

R&A WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKINGS

WEEK 42 WINNERS & LEADING AMATEURS

Charlie Beljan (The Club Glove), Will Besseling (Eisenhower Trophy – Individual), Taylor Coffman* (Barona Collegiate), Mitch Cohlmia / Nicolas Geyger* (Men’s Landfall Tradition), Brandon Crick (SCU Invitational), Brian Harman (Isleworth-UCF Invitational), Alex Hogben (ORU Invitational), Grant Leaver* (F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate), Jamie Lovemark (Big 10/Pac 10 Challenge), Kyle Peterman* (Mason Rudolph Intercollegiate), Ray Sheedy (49er Classic) & Kris Shepherd* (Poplar Hill Intercollegiate)
* New WAGRanked Player.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Richie Ramsay (Scotland), pictured right, retains the R&A WAGR No 1 spot for a 10th week.

JBE Kruger (South Africa), who climbs four places from No 23 to WAGRanked No 19, is the only mover into the Top 20.

Steady climbers, Kyung Tae Kim (Korea), up 40 places to No 33, and British Boys runner-up Bjorn Akesson (Sweden), up 44 to WAGRanking 46, move into the WAGR Top 50.

There are five upward movers into the lower regions of the WAGR Top 100. They are The Open silver medalist, Marius Thorp (Norway), up 55 to No 87, Tim Sluiter, one of the victorious Dutch World amateur championship team, up 18 to 89, Mark Flint Haastrup (Denmark), up 69 to 91, and Americans Trip Kuehne, up 67 to No 96, and Rob Grube, up 43 places to WAGR No 98.

The movers, into the WAGR Top 150 with the minimum divisor of 32, are Jorge Campillo (Spain), up 103 to WAGRanking No 16, Alan Wagner (Argentina), up 60 to No 121, Sweden’s Jonas Blixt, up 30 to 134, and a return for Roberto Castro (USA), up 13 to No 142.

Yoshinori Fujimoto (Japan) was the only amateur to make the halfway cut in the ABC Championship on the Japan Tour.

BESSELING, McALPINE RANKINGS EXPLAINED
David Moir, Manager-Championship Entries of R&A Championships Limited and the man in charge of the World Amateur Golf Rankings, explained to Scottish Golf View while Will Besseling, the Dutchman who had the lowest individual aggregate in the recent Eisenhower Trophy, as well as Scottish match-play champion Kevin McAlpine are ranked so comparatively low, given their achievements. Besseling is ranked No 423 and McAlpine No 242.
"Both Besseling and McAlpine are in WAGR positions that may be considered lower than expected as neither has yet played in the minimum 32 "counting rounds". Their points totals are therefore accumulated over 18 and 19 "rounds" respectively but divided by 32.
As they play more, their points averages will increase and their WAGR positions will improve as a result," said David.

HERE THEY ARE: THE TOP 100 AMATEUR
GOLFERS IN THE WORLD THIS WEEK

1 Richie Ramsay SCO 1153.66
2 Ross McGowan ENG 1126.79
3 Pablo Martin SPA 1123.08
4 Jamie Moul ENG 1117.02
5 Oliver Fisher ENG 1115.52
6 Rory McIlroy IRE 1105.50
7 Won Joon Lee AUS 1097.87
8 Nigel Edwards WAL 1030.95
9 Rhys Davies WAL 1025.45
10 Gary Wolstenholme ENG 1023.21
11 Mitchell Brown AUS 1014.49
12 Chris Kirk USA 1013.21
13 Webb Simpson USA 998.04
14 Jonathan Moore USA 983.64
15 Stephen Dartnall AUS 983.33
16 Billy Horschel USA 982.69
17 Julien Guerrier FRA 963.04
18 Bronson LaCassie AUS 962.07
19 JBE Kruger RSA 948.98
20 Scott Jamieson SCO 947.06
21 Richard Scott CAN 946.81
22 Andrew Tampion AUS 943.28
23 Seve Benson ENG 941.18
24 Dustin Johnson USA 938.18
25 Charl Coetzee RSA 937.68
26 Josh Geary NZL 936.54
27 Ben Parker ENG 934.21
28 Dawie van der Walt RSA 933.33
29 Niklas Lemke SWE 932.35
30 Johan Carlsson SWE 930.30
31 Robert Riesen USA 928.57
32 George Murray SCO 916.13
33 Kyung Tae Kim KOR 915.63
34 Jason Palmer ENG 913.51
35 Tim Stewart AUS 912.70
36 David Hewan RSA 910.77
37 Oscar Floren SWE 909.76
38 George Coetzee RSA 909.62
39 James Gill NZL 907.27
40 Alex Prugh USA 902.38
41 James Love CAN 897.37
41 Cameron Tringale USA 897.37
43 Adrien Bernadet FRA 897.22
44 Joost Luiten NED 892.50
45 Dandre Neumeyer RSA 888.24
46 Bjorn Akesson SWE 887.50
47 Sebastian Saavedra ARG 886.36
48 Stephen Lewton ENG 881.82
49 Christiaan Basson RSA 878.46
50 Ryan Yip CAN 875.00
51 Mark Purser NZ 874.07
52 Gary Woodland USA 872.73
53 Heinrich Bruiners RSA 865.63
54 Matteo Del Podio ITA 860.53
55 James Morrison ENG 860.00
56 Andrew Dodt AUS 857.14
57 Lloyd Saltman SCO 856.52
58 Richie Gallichan AUS 854.90
59 David Horsey ENG 853.33
60 Kevin Chappell USA 850.00
61 Seung Su Han KOR 843.75
62 Erik Flores USA 841.18
63 Paul O'Hara SCO 840.91
64 Andrew Parr CAN 839.53
65 Antti Ahokas FIN 835.29
66 Daniel Summerhays USA 834.15
67 Colt Knost USA 833.33
68 Brian Harman USA 32.65
69 Rick Kulacz AUS 827.94
70 Ashley Hall AUS 826.23
71 Martin Ureta CHL 823.81
72 Neil Schietekat RSA 822.22
73 Cennydd Mills WAL 820.93
74 Julien Grillon FRA 820.41
75 Tristan Lambert AUS 814.52
76 Jarred Texter USA 814.27
77 Edward Richardson ENG 807.32
78 Robert Gates USA 806.67
79 Matthew Cryer ENG 805.26
80 Daniel Belch ENG 802.78
81 Jamie Arnold AUS 800.00
82 Callum Macaulay SCO 800.00
83 Rohan Blizard AUS 798.04
84 Jose Luis Adarraga SPA 795.00
85 Zack Miller USA 795.00
86 Tyler Leon USA 793.88
87 Marius Thorp NOR 793.75
88 Bronson Burgoon USA 790.91
89 Tim Sluiter NED 788.24
90 Nicol Van Wyk RSA 788.00
91 Mark Haastrup DEN 787.50
92 Ben Evans ENG 784.09
93 Llewellyn Matthews WAL 781.13
94 John Gallagher SCO 779.66
95 Danny Lee NZL 778.13
96Trip Kuehne USA 778.13
97 Duncan Stewart SCO 775.00
98 Rob Grube USA 775.00
99 Jon McLean USA 773.68
100 Matthew Swan USA 772.22
Other Scots in world rankings:
114 Jonathan King 742.86.
118 Scott Henry 740.54.
125 Keir McNicoll 724.28.
126 Bryan Fotheringham 722.22
129 Elliot Saltman 729.82.
136 Glenn Campbell 722.64.
137 Wallace Booth 721.88.
147 Mark Kerr 710.00.
156 Craig Watson 702.04.
220 Iain Colquhoun 625.00.
223 Robert McKnight 622.22.
230 Steven McEwan 610.42.
242 Kevin McAlpine 600.00.
257 Ross Kellett 581.25.
310 Jordan Findlay 509.20.
339 Lewis Kirton 456.25.
353 Philip McLean 440.63.
375 Stuart Wilson 415.63.
435 Bryan Innes 343.75.
445 Russell Knox 321.88
456 Barry Scott 328.13.
475 Gordon Yates 312.50.
483 Allyn Dick 306.25.
492 Matthew Clark 300.00
497 Stewart Elder 296.88.