Special Event Runner-up Kim Juhyung, World Ranking Moves from 27th to 21st

Kim Joo-hyung has risen to 21st in the world rankings.

Kim Joo-hyung is checking the wind direction on the fairway of the 3rd hole in the 4th round of the Hero World Challenge. Bahamas=AFP·Yonhap News Photo by AFP

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On the 8th (local time), he earned 3.05 points in the official weekly men's golf world rankings, jumping six spots from 27th place last week. He accumulated points by finishing as the runner-up at the Hero World Challenge, a special event on the PGA Tour with a total prize money of $5 million, which concluded at Albany Golf Course in the Bahamas (par 72, 7,449 yards). The runner-up prize money was $450,000 (approximately 640 million KRW). From the 14th, he will team up with Gino Titiqun (Thailand) at the mixed-gender team event, the Grant Thornton Invitational, held over three days at Tiburon Golf Club in Florida, USA, as a final tune-up ahead of the next season's opening.

Scotty Scheffler (USA), who successfully defended his title at the Hero World Challenge for the second consecutive year, maintained his world No. 1 ranking for 82 consecutive weeks. Since May 22 last year, he has never lost the top spot for a year and a half. The longest consecutive world No. 1 record is held by the "Golf Emperor" Tiger Woods (USA) with 281 weeks.

Xander Schauffele (USA) is 2nd, Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) 3rd, Collin Morikawa (USA) 4th, and Ludvig Aberg (Sweden) held 5th place. South Korea's Im Sung-jae is 24th, An Byeong-hun 25th, and Kim Si-woo is ranked 60th. Joaquin Niemann (Chile), who won the Asian Professional Golf Tour PIF Saudi International, jumped from 124th to 74th place.

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