Christo Lamprecht has climbed 103 places on the latest Official World Golf Ranking list after his fourth place finish in the Korn Ferry Tour’s Bahamas Great Abaco Classic to move to 346^th place as he beds down his early career as a professional.

It’s a career-high placing for the former world number one amateur, and his second-best showing in terms of world rankings points after his share of second in last December’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. It moves him to 18^th on the list of the top 25 South Africans as determined by the official rankings system, and it takes him inside the world’s top 400 for the first time.

Lamprecht’s was not the biggest jump by a South African on the official rankings, however: Daniel van Tonder was up a massive 144 spots to 242^nd after his win on the Sunshine Tour and HotelPlanner Tour co-sanctioned SDC Open at Zebula.

Van Tonder also gained himself some multi-win bonus points, as he was awarded 70 percent of the points available to the winner, which gave him another four. While he is a long way off his career-high of 71^st, this latest victory is a high point in a long climb from outside the world’s top 500 where he found himself deep into last year.

Aldrich Potgieter also got a nice boost with his share of 16^th in the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open, climbing 23 places and leapfrogging Louis Oosthuizen and Robin Williams into sixth spot amongst South Africa’s top 25.

South Africa’s top-ranked player, Thriston Lawrence, missed the cut on the PGA Tour, and slipped one place to 51^st.

South Africa’s top 25:

1. Thriston Lawrence 51 (down 1)
2. Christiaan Bezuidenhout 59 (down 1)
3. Erik van Rooyen 82 (down 6)
4. Shaun Norris 105 (up 4)
5. Dean Burmester 128 (down 4)
6. Aldrich Potgieter 193 (up 23)
7. Robin Williams 213 (down 9)
8. Louis Oosthuizen 219 (down 9)
9. Daniel van Tonder 242 (up 144)
10. Zander Lombard 253 (down 6)
11. Brandon Stone 255 (down 4)
12. Jayden Schaper 282 (down 6)
13. Barend Botha 285 (down 8)
14. Garrick Higgo 294 (up 18)
15. Ryan van Velzen 307 (down 5)
16. Casey Jarvis 312 (down 25)
17. Dylan Frittelli 315 (down 2)
18. Christo Lamprecht 346 (up 103)
19. Jonathan Broomhead 348 (down 11)
20. Jacques Kruyswijk 362 (down 7)
21. Jaco Ahlers 384 (down 9)
22. Thomas Aiken 387 (up 17)
23. Charl Schwartzel 390 (down 7)
24. Deon Germishuys 397 (up 6)
25. Wilco Nienaber 421 (up 4)