LATEST R&A WORLD AMATEUR RANKINGS

SEVEN SCOTS IN TOP 100 BUT
ENGLAND HAS FIVE
IN LEADING TWELVE

Scotland has seven players in the top 100 in the latest world men’s amateur golf rankings issued by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club.
US amateur champion Richie Ramsay (Richie Ramsay), pictured right, is the undisputed No 1 with Scott Jamieson (Cathkin Braes) in 19th place. Then comes George Murray (Elie & Earlsferry Thistle) 34th, Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw) 52nd, Paul O’Hara (Colville Park) 59th, Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan) 64th and John Gallagher (Swanston) 87th).
But before we Scots get too cocky about it, England have FIVE players in the top 12 alone.
Leading 100 in the world amateur rankings are:
1 Richie Ramsay (Sco), 2 Jamie Moul (Eng), 3 Ross McGowan (Eng), 4 Pablo Martin (Spa), 5 Rory McIlroy (Ire), 6 Oliver Fisher (Eng), 7 Won Joon Lee (Aus), 8 Adam Gee (Eng), 9 Nigel Edwards (Wal), 10 Webb Simpson (US).
11 Rhys Davies (Wal), 12 Gary Wolstenholme (Eng), 13 Jonathan Moore (US), 14 Mitchell Brown (Aus), 15 Chris Kirk (US), 16 Bronson LaCassie (Aus), 17 Stephen Dartnall (Aus), 18 Julien Guerrier (Fra), 19 Scott Jamieson (Sco), 20 Dawie van der Walt (SAf).
21 Charles Coetzee (SAf), 22 Andrew Tampion (Aus), 23 Josh Geary (NZ), 24 Seve Benson (Eng), 25 Ben Parker (Eng), 26 Billy Horschel (US), 27 David Hewan (SAf), 28 J B E Kruger (SAf), 29 James Gill (NZ), 30 Cameron Tringale (US).
31 Richard Scott (Can), 32 Oscar Floren (Swe), 33 Dustin Johnson (US), 34 George Murray (Sco), 35 Alex Prugh (US), 36 Christiaan Basson (SAf), 37 Jason Palmer (Eng), 38 Tim Stewart (Aus), 39 Sebastian Saavedra (Arg), 40 James Love (Can).
41 George Coetzee (SAF), 42 Adrien Bernadet (Fra), 43 Mark Purser (NZ), 44 Joost Luiten (Net), 45 (equal) Matteo Del Podio (Ita) & Dandre Neumeyer (SAf), 47 Johan Carlsson (Swe), 48 Stephen Lewton (Eng), 49 Ryan Yip (Can), 50 James Morrison (Eng).
51 Andrew Dodt (Aus), 52 Lloyd Saltman (Sco), 53 Richie Gallichan (Aus), 54 David Horsey (Eng), 55 Kevin Chappell (US), 56 Martin Ureta (Chi), 57 Andrew Parr (Can), 58 Seung Su Han (Kor), 59 Paul O'Hara (Sco), 60 Erik Flores (US).
61 Rick Kulacz (Aus), 62 Ashley Hall (Aus), 63 Jarred Texter (US), 64 Callum Macaulay (Sco), 65 Cennydd Mills (Wal), 66 Colt Knost (US), 67 Tristan Lambert (Aus), 68 Niklas Lemke (Swe), 69 Daniel Summerhays (US), 70 Edward Richardson (Eng).
71 Heinrich Bruiners (SAf), 72 Matthew Cryer (Eng), 73 Neil Schietekat (SAf), 74 Daniel Belch (Eng), 75 Jamie Arnold (Aus), 76 Rohan Blizard (Aus), 77 Jose Luis Adarraga (Spa), 78 Robert Riesen (Aus), 79 Jamie Abbott (Eng), 80 Julien Grillon (Fra).
81 Llewellyn Matthews (Wal), 82 Robert Gates (US), 83 Antti Ahokas (Fin), 84 Tyler Leon (US), 85 Bjorn Akesson (Swe), 86 Matthew Swan (US), 87 John Gallagher (Sco), 88 Lorenzo Gagli (Ita), 89 Nicol Van Wyk (SAf), 90 Danny Lee (NZ).
91 Kyung Tae Kim (Kor), 92 Jon McLean (US), 93 Brian Harman (US), 94 Gareth Shaw (Ire), 95 Branden Grace (SAf), 96 Ben Evans (Eng), 97 Zack Miller (US), 98 Florian Fritsch (Ger), 99 David May (US), 100 Mark Harrell (US).