Lee-Anne Pace might have slid down the leaderboard in the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship last week, but her share of 30^th was enough to see her climb 16 spots on the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings.

Pace moved to 177^th, while both Ashleigh Buhai and Paula Reto – the other two South Africans in the field at Baltusrol last week – dropped two places to 15^th and 80^th respectively.

Only two other women in the top 10 South Africans on the list were in action last week: Stacy Bregman and Lejan Lewthwaite played the Ladies European Tour tournament in the Czech Republic, and slipped nine and seven spots respectively.

South Africa’s top 10:

1. Ashleigh Buhai 15 (down 2)
2. Paula Reto 80 (down 2)
3. Lee-Anne Pace 177 (up 16)
4. Nicole Garcia 236 (down 9)
5. Casandra Alexander 269 (down 6)
6. Kaleigh Telfer 519 (down 3)
7. Stacy Bregman 613 (down 9)
8. Nadia van der Westhuizen 712 (down 8)
9. Kiera Floyd 717 (down 7)
10. Lejan Lewthwaite 927 (down 7)