'Rocket Mortgage Champ' Fowler Moves Up from World Ranking 35 to 23
Official Weekly Men's Golf World Rankings Announced
Scheffler, Rahm, McIlroy Maintain Top 3 Positions
Im Seongjae 22nd, Kim Juhyung 25th, Kim Siwoo 35th
Rickie Fowler (USA) has jumped to 23rd in the world rankings.
![Ricky Fowler is smiling while holding his daughter Maya immediately after winning the Rocket Mortgage Classic in a playoff. <br>[Detroit (USA) = Photo by AFP·Yonhap News]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2023070317143884855_1688372078.jpeg)
Ricky Fowler is smiling while holding his daughter Maya immediately after winning the Rocket Mortgage Classic in a playoff.
[Detroit (USA) = Photo by AFP·Yonhap News]
Fowler earned 3.56 points in the men's golf weekly world rankings announced on the afternoon of the 2nd (local time), jumping 12 spots from 35th place last week. He accumulated points by winning the PGA Tour Rocket Mortgage Classic (total prize money $8.8 million), which concluded that morning at Detroit Golf Club in Michigan, USA (par 72, 7,370 yards). This is his 6th career victory, his first in 4 years and 5 months since the Phoenix Open in February 2019, with a winner's prize of $1,584,000 (approximately 2.1 billion KRW).
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There were no changes in the top ranks. Scottie Scheffler (USA), Jon Rahm (Spain), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Patrick Cantlay (USA), Viktor Hovland (Norway), Xander Schauffele (USA), and Cameron Smith (Australia) maintained their positions in the 'top 7'. Max Homa (USA) moved up one spot to 8th, pushing Matthew Fitzpatrick (England) down to 9th. South Korea's players are positioned as follows: Im Sung-jae at 22nd, Kim Joo-hyung at 25th, Kim Si-woo at 35th, and Lee Kyung-hoon at 52nd.
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