'First Victory' Highsmith, World Ranking from 170th to 59th
Cognizant Classic Champion in His 34th Tournament Appearance
Scheffler Ranks 1st, McIlroy 2nd, Schauffele 3rd
Im Sungjae 22nd, Kim Joohyung 26th, An Byeonghun 32nd
Second-year unknown player Joe Highsmith (USA) jumped to 59th in the world rankings.
Jo Highsmith is smiling brightly while holding the trophy right after winning the Cognizant Classic. Palm Beach Gardens=AP·Yonhap News
View original imageIn the men's golf weekly world rankings announced on the 2nd (local time), he received 1.78 points and jumped 111 places from 170th last week. He accumulated points by winning a come-from-behind victory at the PGA Tour Cognizant Classic (total prize money $9.2 million), which ended at the PGA National Resort Champions Course (par 71) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA. It was his first win in his 34th tournament since debuting on the PGA Tour last year.
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Scottie Scheffler (USA) firmly held onto the number one spot as usual. Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) pushed Xander Schauffele (USA) down to third place and rose to second. Ludvig ?berg (Sweden) was fourth, Collin Morikawa (USA) fifth, and Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) was in sixth place. For Korea, Im Sung-jae was 22nd, Kim Joo-hyung 26th, An Byeong-hun 32nd, and Kim Si-woo was in 71st place.
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