[Golf Topic] 'Valspar Champ' Burns "Into Top 10 in World Rankings at Once"... Im Sungjae 'Number 26'

Sam Burns is cheering while holding the trophy immediately after winning the Valspar Championship. Palm Harbor, USA=Getty Images/Multivitz Photo by Multivitz

[Asia Economy Kim Hyun-jun, Golf Specialist Reporter] ○..."Straight into the Top 10."

‘Valspar Champ’ Sam Burns has risen to 10th in the world rankings. In the weekly official golf world rankings announced on the afternoon of the 21st (Korean time), he received 5.29 points, jumping 7 spots from 17th place last week. He accumulated points by winning the final day of the PGA Tour Valspar Championship (total prize money $7.8 million) held at Innisbrook Golf Club (Par 71, 7,340 yards) in Palm Harbor, Florida, USA, after an extended playoff against Davis Riley (both from the USA) that ended that morning.

This is his second win of the season and third overall, five months after his October victory at the Sanderson Farms. Burns drew even more spotlight by successfully defending his title at the Valspar Championship, where he earned his first win last year. The first playoff hole at the 18th hole (Par 4) ended in par, and on the second playoff hole at the 16th hole (Par 4), he sank a winning birdie from an impressive 10 meters. Riley consoled himself by soaring from 399th to 172nd in the rankings.

Jon Rahm (Spain), Collin Morikawa (USA), Viktor Hovland (Norway), Patrick Cantlay, and Scottie Scheffler make up the ‘Top 5’. It is interesting that Dustin Johnson (USA) dropped to 11th place. This is the first time in seven years since his win at the Cadillac Championship in March 2015 that he has fallen out of the ‘Top 10’. Korea has four players in the ‘Top 100’: ‘Shriners Champ’ Im Sung-jae (24) at 26th, Kim Si-woo (27) at 54th, Lee Kyoung-hoon (31) at 80th, and ‘Asian Tour Money Leader’ Kim Joo-hyung (20) at 86th.

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