‘Major Champ’ Kepka “World Ranking 44th → 13th”
Official Weekly Men's Golf World Rankings Announced
PGA Championship Winner Koepka Jumps 31 Spots
Schauffele 1st, Rahm 2nd, Im Sungjae 19th
"Major champ" Brooks Koepka (USA) has risen to 13th place in the world rankings.
![Brooks Koepka is smiling while holding the trophy immediately after winning the PGA Championship. <br>[Rochester (USA) = AFP·Yonhap News]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2023052210174438299_1684718264.jpeg)
Brooks Koepka is smiling while holding the trophy immediately after winning the PGA Championship.
[Rochester (USA) = AFP·Yonhap News]
Koepka earned 4.5418 points in the men's golf weekly world rankings announced on the 21st (local time), jumping 31 spots from 44th place last week. Koepka accumulated points by winning the major tournament PGA Championship (total prize money $17.5 million) held at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, USA. This marks his 5th major win in 4 years since the PGA Championship in May 2019, his 9th PGA Tour victory in 2 years and 3 months since the WM Phoenix Open in February 2021, with a winner's prize of $3.15 million (approximately 4.18 billion KRW).
PGA Championship runner-up Scottie Scheffler (USA) pushed Jon Rahm (Spain) to 2nd place and ascended to 'Number 1'. Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) is 3rd, Patrick Cantlay 4th, Xander Schauffele (both USA) 5th, and Viktor Hovland (Norway), who tied for 2nd at the PGA Championship, rose 5 spots to 6th.
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Korea's Im Sung-jae is 19th, Kim Joo-hyung 21st, Kim Si-woo 38th, and Lee Kyung-hoon 43rd. Baek Seok-hyun, who won the SK Telecom Open on the Korean Professional Golf (KPGA) Korean Tour the previous day, jumped an impressive 516 spots from 1247th last week to 731st.
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