Victory gives Strydom huge boost on Official World Golf Ranking

Feb 13, 2023 | Featured, Rankings

Last week, Ockie Strydom was ranked by the Official World Golf Ranking as South Africa’s 18^th best golfer. After his superb win in Singapore at the weekend, he is inside the top 10 at seventh, and inside the top 150 in the world.

Strydom’s closing 63 not only took him to the top of the leaderboard in a tournament, it changed the ballgame for the man with more runner-up finishes than most. At 149^th in the world, and with opportunities aplenty in tournaments ahead of him with more world ranking points than he has ever played for, he is in a pretty position to make a push towards the world’s top 100.

There were three other noteworthy performances during the weekend in terms of world ranking positions: Oliver Bekker, who was the highest-ranked player in the Dimension Data Pro-Am, climbed 10 places with his victory into 103^rd, and he seems well on his way back inside the top 100.

Dylan Frittelli reversed a downward trend with two great rounds in the PGA Tour’s WM Phoenix Open on Friday and Saturday, before finished a solid 14^th. He’s up 27 places to 169^th, and that’s a trend he will want to extend.

Zander Lombard had another good week, and, although his climb was less spectacular than his 77 places last week, he was up 14 places to inside the world’s top 250 in 242^nd.

Those South Africans committed to LIV Golf continue to battle to arrest their slide down the rankings, despite many of them trying to gain points by playing on the Asian Tour.

South Africa’s top 20: