MICHAEL STEWART (No 29) HIGHEST EVER WORLD RANKING

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Michael Stewart's success in winning the South African open amateur championship has boosted him to his highest ever RandA World Amateur Golf Ranking.

In this week's revised rankings, the Scottish amateur champion, pictured right, from the Troon Welbeck club has gone up three places to No 29.

The highest-ranked Scot, James Byrne (Banchory and Arizona State University) stays on the fringe of the Top Ten at No 11, no change from last week.

Here is a glance at this week's WAGR:
1 Peter Uihlein (US).
2 Patrick Cantley (US)
3 David Chung (US)
Selected rankings:
11 James Byrne (Scotland) (no change from last week).
17 Andrew Sullivan (England) (No 14 last week).
26 Paul Cutler (Ireland) (24).
29 Michael Stewart (Scotland) (32).
37 Tom Lewis (England) (35).
40 Jack Senior (England) (38).
79 Kevin Phelan (Ireland) (77).
80 Stiggy Hodgson (England) (78)
84 Laurie Canter (England) (82).
129 Eddie Pepperell (England) (125).
145 Stuart Ballingall (Scotland) (147.
157 Rhys Pugh (Wales) (no change)
163 Andrew Cooley (England) (164).
182 Kris Nicol (Scotland) (178).
183 Darren Wright (England) (179).
184 Tyrell Hatton (England) (179).
192 Ross Kellett (Scotland) (190).

OTHER SCOTS IN TOP 500
253 Scott Crichton (246 last week).
292 Paul Shields (289).
369 Brian Soutar (360).
381 Scott Larkin (369).
448 Peter Latimer (443).

453 David Law  (448).

455 Greg Paterson (451).

457 James White (455).

495 Steven Rennie (496).

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Note from Colin Farquharson:
In all my reports on Stuart Ballingall's success on the US college circuit, I have credited him with being born in Norwich (according to the Univeresity of Missouri golf roster info) but of Scottish parentage, which, I thought, explained why he was eligible to play for Scotland's Under-18 boys' team a couple of years back.
Now Stuart's sister Lindsey has put the record straight - he was born in Paisley!


E-MAIL FROM LINDSEY BALLINGALL

Hi Colin,
My parents and I were very excited to come across your blog recently as you have mentioned my younger brother Stuart in some of your posts. I felt like I should write to let you know that Stuart was born in Paisley so although we moved to Norwich in 1998 he is a true Scot!
He has just finished competing in the Jackrabbit Invitational in Las Vegas and finished second behind his team mate Jace Long. He shot -10 on his first round so it was a bit tense watching the scores come in for the next two rounds!
Looking forward to reading your future posts!
Regards,
Lindsey Ballingall