GRAEME McDOWELL NOW No. 5 IN WORLD RANKINGS

FROM THE IRISH TIMES.COM WEBSITE
Portrush's Graeme McDowell has moved to a career high fifth in the world rankings. It rounds off a spectacular year and, indeed, week, in which the US Open winner was awarded an MBE and picked up the RTE Sportsperson of the Year award.
Lee Westwood remains top of the pile, ahead of Tiger Woods, with Martin Kaymer and Phil Mickelson separating them from McDowell.
His fellow Ulsterman and close friend Rory McIlroy remains in tenth place behind England’s Paul Casey and Luke Donald, but marginally ahead of Ian Poulter.
Pádraig Harrington, however, drops a further two places to 25th.

UPDATED TOP 40 WORLD RANKINGS
Last week's ranking in brackets.
1 (1) Lee Westwood (England) 9.10 average points
2 (2) Tiger Woods (US) 7.69
3 (3) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 7.15
4 (4) Phil Mickelson (US) 6.55
5 (6) Graeme McDowell (N Ireland) 6.11
6 (5) Jim Furyk (US) 6.10
7 (7) Steve Stricker (US) 5.97
8 (8) Paul Casey (England) 5.77
9 (9) Luke Donald (England) 5.57
10 (10) Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) 5.50
11 (11) Ian Poulter (England) 5.48
12 (12) Ernie Els (S Africa) 5.47
13 (13) Matt Kuchar (US) 4.68
14 (16) Retief Goosen (S Africa) 4.45
15 (14) Dustin Johnson (US) 4.44
16 (15) Francesco Molinari (Italy) 4.35
17 (17) Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 4.30
18 (18) Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 4.08
19 (19) Hunter Mahan (US) 3.97
20 (21) Robert Allenby (Australia) 3.69
Also:
21 Louis Oosthuizen (S Africa) 3.67.
22 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 3.55.
23 Adam Scott (Australia) 3.53.
23 Zach Johnson (US) 3.53.
25 Padraig Harrington 3.52
26 Tim Clark (S Africa) 3.49.
27 Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 3.47.
28 Rickie Fowler (US) 3.20.
29 Kim Kyung-Te (S Korea) 3.40.
30 Justin Rose (England) 3.36.
31 Anthony Kim (US) 3.309.
32 Bubba Watson (US) 3.29.
33 Ross Fisher (England) 3.20.
33 Charl Schwartzel (S Africa) 3.20.
35 Rya Ishikawa (Japan) 3.18.
36 Nick Watney (US) 3.06.
37 Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 3.03
38 Jason Day (Australia) 2.99.
39 Ben Crane (US) 2.98.
40 Yuta Ikeda (Japan) 2.91.

ALL THE SCOTS' WORLD RANKINGS

50 Martin Laird 2.55.
81 Michael Sim 1.71.
90 Stephen Gallacher 1.56.
141 Richie Ramsay 1.20.
205 George Murray 0.83.
212 David Drysdale 079.
246 Paul Lawrie 0.78.
291 Peter Whiteford 0.61.
371 Raymond Russell 0.46.
417 Colin Montgomerie 0.40.
427 Scott Jamieson 0.39.
441 Gary Orr 0.36.
473 Marc Warren 0.31.
482 Jamie McLeary 0.30.
511 Andrew Coltart 0.28.
579 Alastair Forsyth 0.22.
590 Alan McLean 0.21.
590 Steven O'Hara 0.21.
634 Craig Lee 0.18.
636 Scott Drummond 0.18.
636 Lloyd Saltman 0.18.
646 Eric Ramsay 0.17.
684 Andrew McArthur 0.15.
684 Elliot Saltman 0.15.
725 Callum Macaulay 0.13.
813 Doug McGuigan 0.10.
832 Chris Doak 0.09.
999 Ross Bain 0.04.
1130 Greig Hutcheon 0.02.
1130 Sandy Lyle 0.02