Deon Germishuys finished in a share of 15^th on the DP World Tour at the weekend, and that has seen him jump inside South Africa’s top 20 players on the Official World Golf Ranking list published on Monday.

Germishuys’ nine-spot climb up the list took him to 286^th, as he leapfrogged Justin Harding, who is out for a lengthy recovery from injury problems, and Branden Grace, who is on a LIV Golf induced slide down the rankings despite a good performance on the breakaway ‘tour’ over the weekend.

After Germishuys won the Sishen Classic on the Sunshine Tour last year, he reached a career-high of 264^th. He had slipped to outside the top 300 in the world, at 303^rd, after the Jonsson Workwear Open earlier this year, but has been slowly working his way back.

The other South African who had a good boost on the list was Garrick Higgo. His share of 30^th in the PGA Tour’s AT&T Byron Nelson at the weekend also saw him jump nine places into 199^th – back inside the world’s top 200, but a long way off his career-high 38^th.

South Africa’s top-ranked golfer remains Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who was unchanged at 77^th after his share of 23^rd in the AT&T Byron Nelson.

South Africa’s top 20:

1. Christiaan Bezuidenhout 77 (unchanged)
2. Dean Burmester 85 (unchanged)
3. Thriston Lawrence 96 (up 1)
4. Oliver Bekker 124 (down 4)
5. Ockie Strydom 144 (down 1)
6. Erik van Rooyen 145 (down 3)
7. MJ Daffue 154 (down 3)
8. Zander Lombard 176 (down 1)
9. Louis Oosthuizen 186 (down 23)
10. Hennie du Plessis 188 (down 3)
11. Garrick Higgo 199 (up 9)
12. Dylan Frittelli 221 (down 5)
13. Shaun Norris 225 (down 11)
14. Charl Schwartzel 241 (down 11)
15. Jaco Ahlers 257 (up 5)
16. George Coetzee 258 (down 6)
17. Daniel van Tonder 267 (down 9)
18. Louis de Jager 271 (down 6)
19. JC Ritchie 277 (down 11)
20. Deon Germishuys 286 (up 9)