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Sam Burns rose from 17th to 10th in the Official World Golf Ranking after winning the Valspar Championship for the second time in as many years.
Dustin Johnson has been knocked out of the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time since winning the old WGC-Cadillac Championship in March 2015. That’s right, Johnson, who is currently ranked No. 11, spent a little more than seven years in the top ten.
This maintains a pattern of young PGA Tour players breaking into the top ten in the world rankings. Rory McIlroy, who is 32 years old, is now the oldest player in the top ten.
Patrick Cantlay, who turned 30 on March 17, is the second oldest top-10 player in the world.
Justin Thomas talked about being ranked seventh in the OWGR last week.
“To be quite honest, where I am in the world ranking irritates me,” Thomas stated. “So it motivates me to work harder because your major goal is to have no names ahead of you in the world rankings, and I have a lot more ahead of me than I’d like.”
This week, Thomas has one less name ahead of him, as he has moved up to No. 7 in the world, passing Rory McIlroy.
Davis Riley and Matthew NeSmith, who both finished in the top three at the Valspar Championship, were the biggest movers of the week. Riley moved up one rank from No. 399 to No. 172, while NeSmith moved up one spot from No. 279 to No. 173.
