Golf Events from the Weekend 18th August 2013

Well it was another brilliant weekend on the Major Professional Golf Tours from around the world. This week the USPGA Tour and FedEx Cup headed to Greensboro, North Carolina for the final event in the FedEx Cup regular season and it was Wyndham Championship and it was played on the Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, NC. And the Golfer by the name of Patrick Reed (USA) who scored rounds of 65-5, 64-6, 71+1 and a final round of 66-4 for a 72 hole total of 266-14 but he was tied on that score by Jordan Spieth (USA) who scored rounds of 65-5, 66-4, 70 even par and a final round of 65-5 for a 72 hole total of 266-14 also. So those two players headed back to the par four, 18th hole for the first playoff hole.

 

Justine Reed (Caddie) on left and Patrick Reed (USA) on right get ready to play a shot during the final round

Jordan Spieth (USA) teed off first and struck a poor drive that landed in the left hand trees. Patrick Reed (USA) teed off next and hit an okay drive that landed in the first cut of the left hand rough. Jordan Spieth’s (USA) only option for his second shot was to chip out back to the fairway short of the stream that ran through the fairway. He chipped his ball out to within a short iron distance of the green. Patrick Reed (USA) now knew that putting his second shot close on the green would really apply the pressure. He hit his mid iron second shot that never left the pin and came to rest eight feet from the pin, but it still left a tricky downhill putt for his birdie. Jordan Spieth (USA) now knew he had to get his third shot up and down to give him any chance at all of forcing a second playoff hole. But he pulled his third shot and it landed about 30 feet past the pin to the left on the green leaving a very difficult putt for his par four. Patrick Reed (USA) and his wife, Justine who caddies for him and is a very good golfer herself now walked up to the 18th green smiling at each other because they thought that his maiden win on the USPGA Tour wasn’t very far away. Jordan Spieth (USA) now lined up his 30 foot putt for par. He steadied himself and struck a perfect putt at perfect pace and it fell right in the centre of the cup for his par four!! He got very excited and now knew he had put the pressure right back on Patrick Reed (USA). Patrick Reed (USA) now had to be very careful with his eight foot birdie putt because it was very fast and if it didn’t go in it could easily get away from him. He struck his putt okay but it missed on the right hand side by a fraction and rolled about three feet past. He steadied his nerve and then rolled the return three footer in for his par four. Both Patrick and Justine Reed (USA) walked off the first playoff hole in shock that they were heading to a second playoff hole!!

The second playoff hole was the par four, tenth hole. Jordan Spieth (USA) teed off first with his fairway wood and hit a great tee shot that landed right in the centre of the fairway. Patrick Reed (USA) teed off last and his fairway wood and it started out to the right and didn’t draw back like he hoped. It landed in the trees out to the right in the pine needles. He was unsure if it was still in bounds so he played a provisional ball off the tee and this time he put it in the fairway. But when he got down to his first ball he found it was just in bounds by a yard. Jordan Spieth (USA) played his second shot first with his short iron and hit a excellent shot under the circumstances that landed ten feet to the right of the flag stick on the green pin high and that really put the pressure right back on Patrick Reed (USA). Patrick Reed (USA) discussed his options with his caddie and wife, Justine. He could either chip it out low on the left hand side and try and run it on to the green but that option would properly only produce a par four at best. The other option was to take a mid iron and grip down the shaft and take a direct line to the pin through a small gap in the trees. He chose the second option and executed to perfection and it found the gap in the trees and landed just on the front of the green with a little bit of spin as well and came to rest five feet short of the flag stick. He walked up to the green with his caddie, Justine and you could notice he definitely had a spring in his step!! Jordan Spieth (USA) who was walking up to the green as well just slightly ahead of him turned his head around looking at Patrick Reed (USA) and gave him the thumbs up in acknowledgement of his amazing shot. I thought that was a fine display of sportsmanship. Jordan Spieth (USA) now stood over his ten foot birdie putt that had a slight right to left break in it. Deep down he knew he would properly have to hole it to extend the playoff to a third playoff hole. He struck a very good putt but it just didn’t break enough to the left and rolled two feet past the hole. He easily tapped in for his par four. Now the stage was set for Patrick Reed (USA) to win his maiden USPGA Tour event. Justine his caddie and Patrick looked over the line of his five foot birdie putt. Then Patrick Reed (USA) calmed himself and then struck his five foot birdie putt and it rolled right in the centre of the cup. Patrick Reed (USA) then pumped his fist in the air to celebrate!! Then he gave his wife and Caddie, Justine a kiss. He had now won his maiden USPGA Tour event of his career. They became the first married couple as player and caddie to win on the USPGA Tour since Steve and Nicky Stricker (USA) won the 1996 Motorola Western Open as player and caddie.

 

Patrick Reed (USA) pumps his fist after holing the winning putt!!

Patrick Reed (USA) won US $954,000.00 for the win and moved to 28th position on the current 2013 USPGA Money list standings with US $1,927,999 earned from the 23 events he has played to date this year so far. Tiger Woods (USA) still leads that list with US $7,687,119 earned from the 12 events he has played to date this year so far. Patrick Reed (USA) also earned 500 FedEx Cup Points for the win and moved to 22nd position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 1,062 FedEx Cup Points earned from the 23 events he has played to date this year so far. He is 1,997 points behind the current leader of that list after the conclusion of the regular season play and that player is Tiger Woods (USA) who has earned 3,059 points from the 12 events he has played to date this year so far, he has a 766 points lead over Matt Kuchar (USA) who is in second position with 2,293 points earned from the 19 events he has played to date this year so far. From the 23 events Patrick Reed (USA) has played to date this year so far he has made 14 cuts and achieved five top ten finishes which includes the win here and also his last three finishes on the USPGA Tour have been top ten. He is in his Rookie Season on the USPGA Tour after gaining his 2013 USPGA Tour card by finishing in tied for 22nd position at the 2012 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament. He is still very young with only being 23 years old having just turned it earlier this month. The win here now has him exempt on the USPGA Tour till the end of the 2015 season. Also in 2012 on the USPGA Tour he successfully Monday qualified for six tournaments on the USPGA Tour which was just an amazing effort considering there are 100 odd Golfers trying for the four spots on offer each week. Here are those six events he Monday qualified for and the results: Monday qualified for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (T24), Wells Fargo Championship (T32), HP Byron Nelson Championship (missed cut), Travelers Championship (T47), True South Classic (T21) and Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Classic (T22). I feel all those good finishes he achieved last year from Monday qualifying have given him the confidence to achieve what he has so far this year and I look for him to have a very strong FedEx Cup playoff series in the coming weeks. He must now be a genuine contender for the rookie of the year award along with Jordan Spieth (USA) and how they play in the FedEx Cup playoffs I feel will determine who wins that. And I also feel he has an outside chance of getting selected as a Captains pick for the US Presidents Cup Team in early October. He currently lies in 38th position on the US Presidents Cup point’s list standings. And it is nice that he has his wife Justine who is a registered nurse caddying for him in his rookie season to sharing his success with. I wish him all the best for the rest of the 2013 season.

 

Patrick Reed (USA) on left and Justine Reed (Caddie and Wife) on right pose with the Wyndham Championship trophy he won!!

Coming in solo second position at 266-14 after 72 holes and losing on the second playoff hole as I mentioned above was Jordan Spieth (USA); he won US $572,400.00 for his efforts and moved to 14th position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $2,631,220 earned from the 19 events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 300 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and move to eighth position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points standings list with 1,436 points earned from the 19 events he has played to date this year so far. From the 19 events he has played to date this year so far he has made 14 cuts and achieved seven top ten finishes which includes the one here and his maiden win at the John Deere Classic in mid July. Jordan Spieth (USA) made people really take notice of him in his first ever USPGA Tour event he played as a 16 year old Amateur at the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship where he scored rounds of 68-2, 69-1, 67-3 and a final round of 72+2 for a 72 hole total of 276-4 and he tied for 16th position while still attending the University of Texas. In the 2011 HP Byron Nelson Championship he played in it again as a 17 year old Amateur and this time he scored rounds of 69-1, 68-2, 72+2 and a 77+7 which was played in extremely windy conditions for a 72 hole total of 286+6 and he tied for 32nd position. In 2012 he played in five more USPGA Tour events as an Amateur and made the cut in three of them with his best finish being tied for 21st at the 112th US Open Championship and he also achieved low Amateur Honours. He decided to turn professional in December of 2012 in the midst of his sophomore year at the University of Texas. This win also earned him the last invitation into The Open Championship in Muirfield, Scotland, this week. He joined 27 other players on the John Deere Classic's chartered jet from Moline, Ill., to Scotland. He also is now exempt on the USPGA Tour till the end of the 2015 season and he also gains starts in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the beginning of the 2014 season and the Masters Tournament next April. He also must now be a genuine contender for the rookie of the year award along with Patrick Reed (USA) and how they play in the FedEx Cup playoffs I feel will determine who wins that.  And I also feel he has an outside chance of getting selected as a Captains pick for the US Presidents Cup Team in early October. He currently lies in 28th position on the US Presidents Cup point’s list standings. He is just an Amazing talent and now he has got his maiden USPGA Tour win I feel he can only go from strength to strength. He is sure to be a Superstar in World Golf for many years to come. I wish him all the best for the rest of the 2013 season.

Coming in tied for third position at 268-12 after 72 holes was Brian Harman (USA); he earned US $307,400.00 for his efforts and moved to 88th position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list with US $909,759 earned from the 27 events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 163 FedEx Cup points for his efforts and moved to 80th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 578 points earned from the twenty seven events he has played to date this year so far. From the twenty seven events he has played to date this year so far he has made 15 cuts and achieved two top ten finishes that includes the one here. He is also in awesome from heading in to the first FedEx Cup Playoff event at The Barclays next week. This was also his best career finish of his USPGA Tour career to date so far. He has been playing the USPGA Tour fulltime for the last two seasons and that includes this one after gaining his full USPGA Tour card by finishing in tied for eighth position at the 2011 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament. He is yet to achieve his maiden USPGA Tour win; maybe it will happen in the 2013 season.

Also tied for third position was John Huh (USA); he too earned US $307,400.00 for his efforts and moved to 62nd position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $1,299,882 earned from the twenty five events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 163 FedEx Cup points for his efforts and moved to 65th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup points list standings with 661 points earned from the twenty five events he has played to date this year so far. From the twenty five events he has played to date this year so far he has made 14 cuts and achieved two top ten finishes which includes the one here. He is in awesome form heading into the first FedEx Cup playoff event next week at The Barclays. This finish is very good because before he played this event he had missed his last four cuts. He first gained his USPGA Tour card at the 2011 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament with a birdie on his final hole on the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West. He got the last available card and finished in tied for 27th position which game him full playing status on the USPGA Tour for the 2012 season. He had a brilliant rookie season on the USPGA Tour in 2012 with earning US $2,692,113 from the 28 events he played in and that included making 22 cuts and achieving four top ten finishes and one of them was his maiden USPGA Tour win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic where he defeated Robert Allenby (Australia) on the eighth playoff hole. He finished in 28th position on the final 2012 USPGA Tour Money list standings and also was the only rookie to qualify for the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola and just the fifth rookie to qualify for the TOUR Championship since the inception of the FedEx Cup in 2007. He was also the youngest player to qualify for the TOUR Championship since Sergio Garcia did so at age 21 in 2001. He finished in 25th position on the final 2012 FedEx Cup Points list standings. He was also named the 2012 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year over Charlie Beljan (USA), Jonas Blixt (Sweden), Bud Cauley (USA) and Ted Potter, Jr (USA). He turned 23 years old in May this year and his future on the USPGA Tour looks very bright for the coming years. He like Sang – Moon Bae (South Korea) has not played in one single Web.com Tour event, instead he choose to play the Korean PGA Tour and has won one event on that tour in the 2010 which was the Shinhan Donghae Open. In winning it he defeat two of his hero’s who were K.J. Choi (South Korea) by two strokes and Seung-yul Noh (South Korea) by three strokes. He is originally from South Korea but his Parents immigrated to the USA when he was young to give him the best chance at become a professional golfer and he has since gained US residency. I feel his second win on the USPGA Tour isn’t too far off and could well happen in the 2013 season. I wish him all the best for the rest of the 2013 season. 

Coming in tied for fifth position at 269-11 after 72 holes was Matt Jones (Australia); he earned US $193,450.00 for his efforts and moved to 53rd position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $1,448,507 earned from the twenty one events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 100 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and moved to 37th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 836 points earned from the twenty one events he has played to date this year so far. From the twenty one events he has played to date this year so far he has made 16 cuts and achieved four top ten finishes which includes the one here. He too is in great form heading into the first FedEx Playoff event at The Barclays next week. And his 62-8 in the final round was the equal low round of the tournament. He has been playing on the USPGA Tour fulltime since the 2008 season after gaining his full USPGA Tour card by finishing in seventh position on the final 2007 Web.com Tour Money list with US $302,227 earned from the 25 events he played in. In his rookie season on the USPGA Tour in 2008 he earned US $775,899 from the 31 events he played in and that included achieving two top ten finishes and he finished in 135th position on the final 2008 USPGA Tour money list standings only giving him conditional status on the USPGA Tour for the 2009 season. He went to the 2008 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament but failed to get his full playing status back and finished in tied for 107th position. In the 2009 season he choose to play in as many USPGA Tour events he could gain starts in which was 17 and he earned US $593,313 and that included making 12 cuts and achieving two top ten finishes. He finished in 134th position on the final 2009 USPGA Tour Money list standings and again that only gave him conditional status on the USPGA Tour for the 2010 season. He went back to the 2009 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament and this time gained his full status back for the 2010 USPGA Tour season by finishing in solo third position.

In his 2010 season on the USPGA Tour he had a much better season with earning US $1,215,743 from the 27 events he played in and made 17 cuts that included achieving five top ten finishes and he finished in 72nd position on the final 2010 USPGA Tour Money list standings easily keeping his full playing status for the 2011 season. In his 2011 season on the USPGA Tour he earned US $602,392 from the 25 events he played in and he made 15 cuts and achieved only one top ten finish. He finished in 133rd position on the final 2011 USPGA Tour Money list standings and once again he found himself in the position of only having conditional status for the 2012 season. He went back to the 2011 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament and failed to gain his full status back for the 2012 USPGA Tour season by finishing in tied for 38th position. He choose to play in as many tournaments he could gain starts in the 2012 season and that was 19 with making eight cuts and only achieving one top ten finish and he earned US $300,254 and finished in 172nd position on the final 2012 USPGA Tour Money list standings and that left him with no status at all for the 2013 season. He went back to the 2012 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament and finished in tied for 14th position gaining his full USPGA Tour card back for the 2013 season. Now he has earned enough money keep his full playing status for the 2013/14 season, he can now focus on achieving his maiden win in 2013.

Also tied for fifth position was Matt Every (USA); he too earned US $193,450.00 for his efforts and moved to 84th position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $930,947 earned from the twenty five events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 100 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and moved to 88th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 545 points earned from the twenty five events he has played to date this year so far. From the twenty five events he has played to date this year so far he has made 14 cuts and this was his third top ten finish he has achieved so far this season and it includes the one here. He takes some very good form into the first FedEx Cup Playoff event at The Barclays next week. He has been playing the USPGA Tour on and off since the 2010 season and last year he had his best season so far with earning US $1,972,166 from the 25 events he played in and that included making 15 cuts and achieving six top ten finishes. He finished up in 40th position on the final 2012 USPGA Tour Money list standings. I feel his maiden USPGA Tour win isn’t too far off and could well happen in the 2013 season.

The final player to tie for fifth position was Zach Johnson (USA); he too earned US $193,450.00 for his efforts and moved to Twentieth position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $2,287,259 earned from the twenty one events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 100 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and moved to 18th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 1,141 points earned from the twenty one events he has played to date this year so far. From the twenty one events he has played to date so far this year he has made 17 cuts and achieved six top ten finishes that includes the one here and his last five finishes have been top ten finishes which proves he is in awesome form right now. He has chosen to skip the first playoff event because it is his brother’s wedding next Saturday. So he will be looking for a huge finish at the second playoff event which is the Deutsche Bank Championship in two weeks time to keep him climbing up the FedEx Cup Playoff rankings with two events remaining. He has been playing on the USPGA Tour fulltime since the 2004 season after gaining his card by finishing at the top of the 2003 final Web.com Tour Money list with US $ 494,882 earned from the 20 events he played in. In his rookie season on the USPGA Tour he won his maiden USPGA Tour event which was the BellSouth Classic. He has easily kept his card every year since and has won at least US$ 1million in all of those seasons. He has won nine events on the USPGA Tour so far in his career and here they are from the first to the most recent: 2004 BellSouth Classic, 2007 Masters Tournament (Maiden Major Championship), AT&T Classic, 2008 Valero Texas Open, 2009 Sony Open in Hawaii, Valero Texas Open, 2010 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, 2012 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial and the John Deere Classic. I feel his second Major Championship win isn’t too far away but it will have to wait until the 2014 season now. He has now amassed US $28,564,552 in career earnings on the USPGA Tour to date so far from the 259 events he has played in. I wish him all the best for the rest of the 2013 season.

Rounding out the top ten in tied for eighth position at 270-10 after 72 holes was Rory Sabbatini (RSA); he earned US $153,700.00 for his efforts and moved to 79th position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $973,725 earned from the twenty four events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 80 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and moved to 85th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 553 points earned from the twenty four events he has played to date this year so far. From the twenty four events he has played to date this year so far he has made 13 cuts and achieved five top ten finishes that includes the one here. He will be looking to have a strong first FedEx Cup Playoff event at The Barclays next week to make sure he is inside the top 100 players on the 2013 FedEx Cup Playoff Points list after the completion of The Barclays and be guaranteed a spot the following week in the second playoff event which is the Deutsche Bank Championship. He has been playing on the USPGA fulltime since the 1999 season and has easily kept his card for the next year every season since. In that time he has amassed career earnings to date of US $26,438,562 from the 376 events he has played in so far in his career. He has also achieved six wins on the USPGA Tour and here they are from the first to the most recent: 2000 Air Canada Championship, 2003 FBR Capital Open, 2006 Nissan Open, 2007 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, 2009 HP Byron Nelson Championship and the 2011 The Honda Classic. I wish him all the rest for of the 2013 season.

Also tied for eighth position was Andres Gonzales (USA); he too earned US $153,700.00 for his efforts and moved to 188th position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $179,387 earned from the 17 events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 80 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and moved to 198th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 96 points earned from the 17 events he has played to date this year so far. From the 17 events he has played to date this year so far he has only made three cuts and this was his first top ten finish he has achieved so far this year. This was also his best career finish on the USPGA Tour to date. Unfortunately his 2013 FedEx Cup season is over. He got his 2013 USPGA Tour season off to a horrible start with missing his first nine straight cuts. He has been playing on the USPGA Tour on and off since the 2011 season after gaining his card by finishing in tied for 22nd position at the 2010 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament. He had a poor rookie season in 2011 on the USPGA Tour with only earning US $186,847 from the twenty one events he played in and he only made nine cuts and didn’t achieve a single top ten finish. He spent the 2012 season playing on the Web.com Tour and had a very good season with playing in twenty three events and making 14 cuts and he achieved three top ten finishes and one of them was a win at the Soboba Golf Classic Presented by Hub International which was his maiden win on the Web.com Tour. He finished in 14th position on the final 2012 Web.com Tour Money list standings with US $235,505 in earnings. That gave him his full USPGA Tour card for the 2013 season. He will now head back to the brand new Web.com Tour Finals which commence with the first event being the Hotel Fitness Championship that starts on Thursday 29th August. He will have four events to finish inside the top 25 Money Earners on the final Web.com Tour Finals Money list to earn back his full USPGA Tour card for the 2013/14 season. I wish him all the best in achieving that.

The final player to tie for eighth position was Bob Estes (USA); he too earned US $153,700.00 for his efforts and moved to 109th position on the current 2013 USPGA Tour Money list standings with US $731,211 earned from the 16 events he has played to date this year so far. He also earned 80 FedEx Cup Points for his efforts and moved to 94th position on the current 2013 FedEx Cup Points list standings with 523 points earned from the 16 events he has played to date this year so far. From the 16 events he has played to date this year so far he has made 13 cuts and achieved two top ten finishes which includes the one here. He will be looking to have a strong first FedEx Cup Playoff event at The Barclays next week to make sure he is inside the top 100 players on the 2013 FedEx Cup Playoff Points list after the completion of The Barclays and be guaranteed a spot the following week in the second playoff event which is the Deutsche Bank Championship. Bob Estes (USA) now at 47 years of age he has been playing on the USPGA Tour for the last 25 years and in that time he has achieved four wins. Here are his four wins on the USPGA Tour from the first to the most recent: 1994 Texas Open, 2001 FedEx St. Jude Classic, Invensys Classic at Las Vegas and the 2002 Kemper Insurance Open. He must be one of the most consistent players on the USPGA Tour over the last 25 years? Now he is less than three years off his 50 Birthday he will be starting to focus on getting ready for the Champions Tour. I wish him all the best for the rest of the 2013 season.

There was a tournament within a tournament this week because it was the final event in the 2013 FedEx Cup Regular season and the last golfer to qualify for the first playoff event which is The Barclays next week was Ben Crane (USA) who finished in the vital 125th position on the final 2013 FedEx Cup Regular season points list with 369 points earned from the twenty events he has played so far this year and he advances to The Barclays next week which is the first FedEx Cup playoff event. He was ten points ahead of the unlucky golfer who was Robert Streb (USA) who finished in 126th position on the 2013 FedEx Cup Regular season points list with 359 points earned from the twenty five events he played in this year and his 2013 FedEx Cup season is over for him just as it is for the rest of the players below him on the list who also missed out on the first FedEx Cup Playoff event.

Next week the USPGA Tour and FedEx Cup heads to Jersey City, New Jersey for the first playoff event in the 2013 FedEx Cup Playoffs and only the top 125 players on the final 2013 regular season FedEx Cup points list are eligible to play in it and it is The Barclays and it is played on Liberty National GC, Jersey City, NJ. It carries a huge prize purse of US $8,000,000 for the taking. Nick Watney (USA) is the defending Champion and will be keen for back to back titles. There is a tournament within a tournament with only the top 100 players on the FedEx Cup Points list standings at the conclusion of this first playoff event advancing to the second playoff event the following week at the Deutsche Bank Championship. It starts on Thursday 22nd August and I will report back who won the trophy next week.

So to the Top 5 on the Official World Golf Rankings Points list this week and coming in at Number One Position for the 645th week of his career in total is the Tiger Woods (USA) who is fresh off his win at the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational two weeks ago with 13.87 Official Golf World Ranking Points; coming in at Number Two is Phil Mickelson (USA) who is fresh off his Open Championship win a month ago with 8.61 Official Golf World Ranking Points; coming in at Number Three is Rory McILroy (NIR)  who is fresh off his tied for eighth position at the 95th PGA Championship last week with 8.44 Official Golf World Ranking Points; coming in at Number Four is Adam Scott who won his maiden Major Championship at the Masters Tournament over three months ago and also tying for fifth position at the 95th PGA Championship last week with 7.93 Official Golf World Ranking Points and rounding out the top 5 on the Official Golf World Ranking Points list this week is Justin Rose (England) who is fresh off his maiden Major Championship win at the 113th US Open Championship over a month ago with 7.44 Official Golf World Ranking Points. Michael Hendry (NZL) fresh off  his tie for 6th position at the Gate Way To The Open Mizuno Open 2013 on the Japan Golf Tour over a month ago is the highest ranked New Zealander Golfer in the world for the twenty eighth straight week of his career. This week he slips two places and falls to 189th position on the Official World Golf Rankings Points list with 0.96 Official Golf World Ranking Points.

Remember when playing in the rain make sure your grips remain dry at all times!!

Source: pgatour.com