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PGA Tour Power Rankings – It’s Scottie Scheffler’s world, but is Jon Rahm ready to return to the top?


It has been nearly a month since the Masters, the first major championship of the season, and the PGA Championship, the second major, is just two weeks away.

Not much has changed since Scottie Scheffler won his first major and slipped on a green jacket at Augusta National Golf Club on April 10. Scheffler is still red-hot and remains the No. 1 player in the world.

Tiger Woods played a practice round last week at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he won the 2007 PGA Championship, and seems ready to compete there again.

We still haven’t heard from defending PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson, who hasn’t played in more than three months after his controversial comments about the PGA Tour and the financiers of a breakaway league fronted by Greg Norman.

Last week, a video emerged on social media showing Mickelson playing on a California golf course. The six-time major champion has registered to play in the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open in June, and his agents have requested a release from the PGA Tour to allow Mickelson to play in the first event of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series in London in June. His agent, Steve Loy, said in a statement that Mickelson hasn’t decided if he’ll play in any of those events.

With the PGA Championship a couple of weeks away, here are ESPN’s latest PGA Tour Power Rankings:

1. Scottie Scheffler
Previous rank: 4

With his victory at the Masters, Scheffler became the first player since Bob Tway in 1986 to claim his first four PGA Tour wins in the same season. Scheffler is a big fan of Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of this month’s PGA Championship. As a freshman at Texas, he won an individual title there at the 2015 Big 12 championship.

2. Jon Rahm
Previous rank: 2

Rahm is no longer the No. 1-ranked player in the world after cooling off at the Players (tie for 55th) and the Masters (tie for 27th). The Spaniard rebounded by winning the Mexico Open on Sunday, his…



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