UPDATED MEN'S WORLD AMATEUR RANKINGS

WEEK 45 WINNERS & LEADING AMATEURS

Neil Schietekat (Central Gauteng Open).

The results of the Selangor Amateur are unavailable as yet.

* New WAGRanked Player.


MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Once again, in Week 45, there were many WAGRanked players (approximately 24) who changed status to Professional – this has in general improved the WAGRanking positions of others.
Royal Aberdeen's Richie Ramsay retains the R&A WAGR No 1 spot for a 13th week since his success in the US amateur championship final.
Dustin Johnson (US), moves up four WAGR places to No 19, and Johan Carlsson (Sweden), up 4 to No 20, enter the Top 20.
Andrew Dodt (Australia), up 13 places to No 38, and Scotland's Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw), up 3 places to No 50, re-enter the WAGR Top 50 while South African Neil Schietekat (see Winners above) climbs 20 places to enter the Top 50 for the first time at No 47.
Three South Africans move into the WAGR Top 100. They are Ruan Botha, up 25 to R&A WAGRanking position No 88, Jacques Blaauw, up 19 to No 91, and Michael van de Venter, up 25 to No 99. Others entering this rarified atmosphere are Florian Fritsch (Germany), up three places to No 98, and Irish Eisenhower team member, Gareth Shaw, up 2 to 100.
Moving into the WAGR Top 150, with the minimum divisor of 32, are three more South African golfers - Wynand Dingle, up 47 to WAGRanking No 123, Steven Williams, up 43 to No 129, and team captain, Norman Raad, up 13 to WAGRanking No 142.
Other upward movers are Americans David May, up four to 147, Matt Harmon, up four to 148, and Erik Olson, up 4 to 149, and Choo Tze Huang (Singapore), up 4 places to WAGRanking 150.
Oliver Fisher (England) led the two amateurs who made the cut in the European Tour Final Qualifying at San Roque, Scotland's George Murray (Earlsferry Thistle) being the other.
Both Fisher and Murray have, as expected, taken up their respective European and Challenge Tour cards.
Andrew Dodt (Australia) made the halfway cut in the Australian Open Championship finishing ahead of the seven other amateur players who did likewise – there were 18 amateurs in the starting field.
R&A member Richard Connoly qualified to play four rounds in the Samsung Brasil Classic ahead of fellow Brazilian amateur, Rafael Becker.
The top 50 in the R&A World Amateur Rankings are:
+First column is updated ranking. Second column is his ranking last week.
1 1 Richie Ramsay SCO 1153.66
2 2 Pablo Martin ESP 1118.37
3 3 Jamie Moul ENG 1117.02
4 6 +2 Rory McIlroy IRE 1081.03
5 4 -1 Ross McGowan ENG 1054.55
6 7 +1 Rhys Davies WAL 1046.94
7 8 +1 Nigel Edwards WAL 1030.95
8 11 +3 Webb Simpson US 1020.41
9 9 Gary Wolstenholme ENG 1018.64
10 10 Chris Kirk USA 989.36
11 14 +3 Stephen Dartnall AUS 987.14
12 12 Billy Horschel US 985.71
13 13 Jonathan Moore US 983.64
14 16 +2 JBE Kruger SAf 981.13
15 18 +3 Bronson LaCassie AUS 974.58
16 17 +1 Julien Guerrier FRA 963.04
17 19 +2 Seve Benson ENG 941.18
18 20 +2 Josh Geary NZ 936.54
19 23 +4 Dustin Johnson US 936.36
20 24 +4 Johan Carlsson SWE 930.30
21 29 +8 Charl Coetzee SAf 928.77
22 25 +3 Robert Riesen US 928.57
23 26 +3 Dawie van der Walt SAf 923.53
24 27 +3 Kyung Tae Kim KOR 915.63
25 30 +5 Jason Palmer ENG 913.51
26 22 -4 Niklas Lemke SWE 912.50
27 32 +5 Stephen Lewton ENG 912.20
28 33 +5 Oscar Floren SWE 910.53
29 34 +5 James Gill NZ 907.27
30 35 +5 Sebastian Saavedra ARG 905.00
31 37 +6 James Love CAN 897.37
+6 Cameron Tringale US 897.37
33 39 +6 Adrien Bernadet FRA 897.22
34 36 +2 George Coetzee SAf 893.33
35 41 +6 Dandre Neumeyer SAf 888.24
36 42 +6 Bjorn Akesson SWE 887.50
37 43 +6 Alex Prugh US 884.44
38 51 +13 Andrew Dodt AUS 883.78
39 31 -8 Tim Stewart AUS 879.10
40 44 +4 Ryan Yip CAN 875.00
41 45 +4 Marius Thorp NOR 875.00
42 46 +4 Mark Purser NZ 874.07
43 50 +7 Christiaan Basson SAf 69 873.91
44 47 +3 Gary Woodland US 872.73
45 48 +3 Rob Grube US 866.67
46 49 +3 Heinrich Bruiners SAf 865.71
47 67 +20 Neil Schietekat SAf 45 864.44
48 40 -8 David Hewan SAf 69 862.32
49 21 -28 Ben Parker ENG 42 854.76
50 53 +3 Lloyd Saltman SCO 50 854.00