Jon Rahm is out of the Top 15 of the ranking
Spaniard Jon Rahm, despite finishing eighth in the BMW Championship, fell back to sixth in the world golf rankings after being overtaken by American Xander Schauffele, whom he had overtaken the previous week.
Jon Rahm, ranking
The table continues to be led by the American Scottie Scheffler with 10.26 points ahead of the Australian Cameron Smith (9.00), while the American Patrick Cantlay, winner this Sunday, has placed third with 8.61 to the detriment of Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (8.14), which falls to fourth place.
Rahm added his eighth top 10 of the season on the American tour at Wilmington by finishing eighth, but was unable to hold on to fifth place as Schauffele finished third. The other three Spaniards in the top 100 in the standings are also losing ground.
Adri Arnaus drops to position 67, Pablo Larrazábal to 71 and Sergio García to 73. Rahm played college golf successfully for Arizona State University. He won 11 titles during that time and led the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a total of 60 weeks.
After graduating, he became a professional golfer in 2016. Already in the first year of his professional career he confirmed his good results and meanwhile played up to second place in the world rankings. Among other things, Rahm won the Dubai World Championship, the final tournament of the European Tour, in 2017 and 2019.
In July 2020, Jon Rahm reached the top of the world golf rankings for the first time with his victory at the Memorial. Rahm was the 24th player and second Spaniard after Severiano Ballesteros to top the world rankings. He lost his top spot to Justin Thomas two weeks later, but regained it after the PGA Championships, only to lose it again two weeks later to Dustin Johnson.
After Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, Rahm became the third player to top the world rankings for both amateurs and professionals. At Memorial 2021, Rahm, as the defending champion, was in the lead by six strokes after three rounds played, but had…
Source : tennisworldusa
