Robin Williams burst into the top 300 in the latest Official World Golf Ranking list released this week after his third-place finish in the Challenge Tour’s Farmfoods Scottish Challenge boosted him to 288^th.

It was his fifth top-10 finish on the Challenge Tour this season, and his world ranking is at a career-high. He is also now inside the top 10 South Africans on the official world ranking list, and seems destined to keep climbing. He leapfrogged past Jayden Schaper and Hennis du Plessis on the South African rankings.

Also getting a nice boost from the Challenge Tour event last week – although he’s outside the South African top 25 – was Bryce Easton, who climbed 50 places to 703^rd. He finished seventh. Deon Germishuys, who finished 10^th, was up three places to 338^th.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout’s share of 22^nd in the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship left him unchanged in 45^th on the world official list, and he is still South Africa’s top-ranked player. At 22^nd on the FedExCup rankings, he’s set to probably play all three of the PGA Tour’s Playoff tournaments for a climax to a solid season.

The biggest climb on the rankings for a South African came from Warwick Purchase, who was up 422 places to 1,700^th thanks to his win on the Betway Big Easy Tour last week.

South Africa’s top 25:

1. Christiaan Bezuidenhout 45 (unchanged)
2. Erik van Rooyen 69 (down 2)
3. Thriston Lawrence 75 (down 1)
4. Dean Burmester 116 (down 5)
5. Zander Lombard 160 (down 3)
6. Louis Oosthuizen 170 (down 2)
7. Garrick Higgo 280 (down 18)
8. Dylan Frittelli 283 (down 5)
9. Robin Williams 288 (up 24)
10. Hennie du Plessis 300 (down 10)
11. Jayden Schaper 320 (down 10)
12. Barend Botha 328 (down 6)
13. Aldrich Potgieter 335 (up 5)
14. Deon Germishuys 338 (up 3)
15. Ryan van Velzen 341 (unchanged)
16. Shaun Norris 346 (down 9)
17. Casey Jarvis 348 (down 12)
18. Brandon Stone 360 (down 6)
19. Jaco Ahlers 364 (down 9)
20. Jacques Kruyswijk 374 (down 3)
21. Wilco Nienaber 378 (down 2)
22. Louis de Jager 387 (down 4)
23. Ockie Strydom 402 (down 15)
24. Darren Fichardt 421 (down 7)
25. Thomas Aiken 428 (down 7)