The American scottie schefflerthe fittest player of the moment, snatched number one in the world golf ranking from the Spaniard Jon Rahm at the gates of the first big of the season, the Augusta Masters, which will be played between April 7 and 10.
Scheffler he has won three of the last five tournaments he has played. He premiered his record of wins at the Phoenix Open, extended his account at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and this Sunday he won the WGC-Match Play in Austin (Texas) by defeating in the final kevin kisner.
This last result and the fact that Rahm fell in the playoff of the round of 16 against the American Brooks Koepka It has climbed him to the top of the world table. He is the 25th player to do so and, at 25 years, 9 months and 6 days, the sixth youngest, a table he leads Tiger Woods with 21 years, 5 months and 16 days.
The Spaniard drops to second place after 36 weeks at the top of the list, and given the rise of Scheffler also move down a position Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and patrick cantlay.
The also American Dustin Johnson, fourth in the world ‘match play’, returns to the ‘top 10’. He progresses three positions and is eighth by overtaking the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy and to his compatriots Xander Schauffele and Sam Burns.
The Mexican Abraham Ancerquarterfinalist in Austin, also moves up three places and is sixteenth, while the Chilean Joaquin Nieman go down to the twentieth and the Spanish Sergio Garciawhich was on the verge of overcoming the group stage, remains at 50.
The Colombian Sebastian Munozdespite the fact that they did not overcome the group that won Rahmrises two positions and is 64, the Spanish adri arnaus still in 81st place, the Venezuelan Jonathan Vegasfourth this Sunday in the tournament in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), progresses to 86 and the Chilean Myth Pereira drops to 97.