Casandra Alexander moved inside the world’s top 30 with her top-10 finish in the Amundi Evian Championship last weekend, standing her in good stead in the run-up to the AIG Women’s Open in two weeks’ time.
It is a career-high for South Africa’s top-ranked player on the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, a high point on a trajectory that is showing no signs of downturn any time soon.
She climbed five places to 28th after the Evian, the fourth major of the women’s season, and she will be looking to consolidate all the gains she has made when she plays in the ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Links this week.
It will be good preparation for the challenges provided by the Women’s Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes, and, fresh off her top-10 finish in France last week, she’ll be looking to recreate the kind of form that gave her a share of seventh in the 2024 Women’s Open.
Her current position on the official rankings is three places higher than her previous best, which was 31st place after her share of 40th in the US Women’s Open just over a month ago.
“I’m not number one in the world now, but if I keep doing what I’m doing and working hard, it could potentially be a possibility in the future,” Alexander said in a 2025 interview. Speaking earlier this year on her ascent in the world rankings, she added: “It’s something I’m proud of but it’s something you have to protect and keep working to move up. It’s so easy to drop down.”
Her coach, Grant Veenstra, doesn’t throw around big claims lightly. But when it comes to Alexander, he is straight to the point. “I definitely think she is a world top-10 player,” Veenstra said. “She has always been an athlete and a great competitor who doesn’t like to lose. But now we’ve worked really hard on consistency in her swing that is showing itself in her performances.”
She has finished inside the top 10 nine times this season, with a share of second four times, and a second place on her own in the Amundi German Masters. With her only victory in the Ladies European Tour coming last year in the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open, it is surely only a matter of time before she wins again.
