‘Wells Fargo Champ’ Clark "World Ranking 80th → 31st"
Weekly Men's Golf World Rankings Announced
Ram, Scheffler, McIlroy Maintain 1st to 3rd Places
Im Sungjae 18th, Jung Chanmin 548th
‘Wells Fargo Champ’ Wyndham Clark (USA) rose to 31st in the world rankings.
Wyndham Clark is cheering while holding the trophy right after winning the Wells Fargo Championship. [Charlotte (USA) = AFP·Yonhap News]
View original imageClark earned 2.63 points in the men's golf weekly world rankings announced on the afternoon of the 7th (local time), soaring 49 spots from 80th place last week. Clark accumulated points by winning his first career victory at the PGA Tour Wells Fargo Championship (total prize money $20 million), which concluded that morning at Quail Hollow Club (par 71, 7,538 yards) in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The winner's prize money was $3.6 million (approximately 4.8 billion KRW).
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Jon Rahm (Spain), Scottie Scheffler (USA), and Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) maintained their 1st to 3rd positions. South Korea's Im Sung-jae ranked 18th, Kim Joo-hyung 19th, Kim Si-woo 42nd, and Lee Kyung-hoon 44th. Korean Tour GS Caltex Maekyung Open winner Jung Chan-min jumped 464 spots to 548th in the world rankings.
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