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Golf’s world rankings: Profiling the world’s top-five golfers

The PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club is set to commence this Thursday and ahead of this much-anticipated second Major of the year, we have taken a look at golf’s world rankings and profiled each of the top-five.

Scottie Scheffler

2022 has been a sensational year so far for the 25-year-old Scottie Scheffler. He won his first PGA tour event at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, but he was not finished there. He has since gone on to win an additional three PGA tour events, including a first Major at last month’s Masters.

After his win at the WGC Dell Technologies Matchplay, he topped the golf world rankings for the first time ever in his career. In doing so, he broke Tiger Woods record for fewest days between a first PGA Tour title and reaching the World No.1 spot.

Although 2022 has been by far his most successful year to date, Scottie was no stranger to success before the public attention that this has subsequently given him. In 2017 he was part of U.S. team that won the Walker Cup. As a rookie, he shot just the 12th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history back in August of 2020.

All-in-all Scheffler’s flying start to 2022 has earnt him a well-deserved world number 1 ranking.

Jon Rahm

After topping the world rankings for much of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, Jon Rahm has since slipped down into second place. However, the big hitting 25-year-old has nevertheless had a positive start to the year, winning his seventh PGA Tour event at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, while he was second Sentry Tournament of Champions and third at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Since turning professional in 2016, Rahm has shown ability and talent at every turn. With five top-10 finishes so far in 2022, the previous world number 1 will certainly be one to look out for in the coming season as he looks to challenge Scheffler in pursuit of re-claiming that top spot.

Collin Morikawa 

Collin Morikawa turned pro in and 2019 and burst onto the scene, winning two PGA Tour events that season, which is still his most successful season to date. He also began his PGA Tour career with 22 consecutive made cuts, with Tiger Woods being the only player to have a better run than him with a 25-cut streak. In fact, there was one point when Morikawa had won more tournaments than had missed cuts!

Morikawa has amassed an impressive five PGA Tour wins in his relatively short professional career and finished 2021 as the world-number two.Although he now sits at number three, he has shown consistency so far in 2022 with six top-10 finishes for the year, which is more than Rahm and only one less than Scheffler.

Cameron Smith

The Australian Cameron Smith turned pro in 2013 and is currently enjoying his most successful season, with two PGA Tour event wins in 2022 so far. These victories shot him up to fourth in the world-rankings, his highest ever position.

In November 2020 Smith finished runner up Dustin Johnson at the Masters, whilst also becoming the first golfer in the history of the competition to shoot all four rounds in the 60s. Since then, he has been steadily climbing the world rankings and recently won the PLAYERS Championship – one of the most prestigious tournaments in golf.

Patrick Cantlay

With a successful amateur career before turning pro in 2012, Patrick Cantlay is the oldest golfer on this list. Cantlay has won once in 2022 – a victory alongside Xander Schauffele at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans – and that followed a strong start to the year which saw him finish runner-up twice. Both of those came when he was defeated in playoffs, so he’s one of the game’s most in-form players.

After breaking back into the top-five again, Cantlay will be eager to move further up the rankings and improve upon his previous best of world number three. Having won the FedEx Cup in impressive fashion last season, the next step for the American is a Major title and given his start to 2022, that elusive first success doesn’t look too far away.

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