Paula Reto found herself up two places in the latest Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings after the weekend, and is sitting pretty inside the world’s top 50 at 27^th.

And, as if to show that the women’s ranking processes are as opaque and inexplicable as the men’s, South Africa’s fifth-best golfer by ranking, Casandra Alexander, dropped five places to 347^th despite a top-20 finish on the Ladies European Tour when she came 13^th in the Lalla Meryem Cup in Rabat, Morocco.

South Africa’s top-ranked woman golfer remains Ashleigh Buhai, and her position at 21^st was unchanged after a week of no action on the LPGA Tour.

After the Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am in South Africa, Lee-Anne Pace and Nicole Garcia were inchanged, Stacy Bregman and Lejan Lewthwaite were up, and Cara Gorlei, Isabella van Rooyen and Kayleigh Telfer were down.

Newly-minted professional Keira Floyd is the 11^th-best South African according to the rankings, and she was in 1338^th.

South Africa’s top 10:

1. Ashleigh Buhai 21 (unchanged)
2. Paula Reto 47 (up 2)
3. Lee-Anne Pace 162 (unchanged)
4. Nicole Garcia 243 (unchanged)
5. Casandra Alexander 347 (down 5)
6. Stacy Bregman 526 (up 4)
7. Lejan Lewthwaite 818 (up 3)
8. Cara Gorlei 993 (down 2)
9. Isabella van Rooyen 1155 (down 7)
10. Kayleigh Telfer 1176 (down 6)