STEVENSON ROCKETS UP WORLD

AMATEUR RANKINGS

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
A first SGU Order of Merit tournament victory in the North-east District Open at Cruden Bay at the weekend boosted St Andrews University graduate Gordon Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 88 places in this week’s revised R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings.
Stevenson is now officially the 566th best male amateur golfer on the planet!
US college student Neil Henderson (Glen) finished joint seventh behind Stevenson and he has made a gigantic leap of 261 places to No 724.
Scott Larkin (Royal Aberdeen), winner of the recent Standard Life Leven Gold Medal, rises 33 places to No 377 but it will be some time before he is back in action. He injured his left wrist late in the third round of the NE District Open and had to retire.
Jin Jeong, the Australia-based South Korean who beat James Byrne in the final of the British amateur championship at Muirfield, has lost his No 1 WAGR to American Peter Uihlein. Jeong is now No 2 ahead of England’s Tommy Fleetwood who is on the verge of turning pro.
Byrne has gone down two places to No 13. The only other Scot in the top 100 is Ross Kellett (Colville Park), up two places to No 59. New Scottish champion Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) has improved 12 places to No 104.


THE NEW R and A WORLD AMATEUR
 GOLF RANKINGS

1 Peter Uihlein (US) +1.
2 Jin Jeong (SKor) -1
3 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) no change.
Scots’ rankings:
13 James Byrne -2.
59 Ross Kellett +2
104 Michael Stewart +12.
145 Kris Nicol -6.
203 Stuart Ballingall +8.
248 James White +8.
356 Peter Latimer no change.
367 Scott Crichton +5
377 Scott Larkin +33.
452 Paul Shields no change.
499 Phili8p McLean -20.
545 Gordon Yates -6.
548 Greg Paterson +4.
566 Gordon Stevenson +88.
578 James Ross +42.
635 Matthew Clark -5.
658 Fraser McKenna -5.
659 David Law +47.
673 Graeme Robertson -5.
680 Mark Hillson -62.
696 Scott Gibson +65.
715 Brian Soutar +63.
710 Glenn Campbell -6.
724 Neil Henderson +261.
744 Andrew Gunson -8.
748 Ross Bell -8.