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Six Europeans occupy places in the World’s Top Ten for first time in the history of the Official World Golf Rankings, with Race to Dubai winner Lee Westwood leading the line at a career high of World Number Four and Rory McIlroy becoming only the second 20 year old to make the World’s Top Ten.
Westwood’s victory in the Dubai World Championship presented by: DP World moved the Englishman up a place in the latest World Ranking to fourth, matching his previous highest position achieved the last time he was European Number One in 2000.
His six-stroke victory over fellow Englishman Ross McGowan on the Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates took him past the injured Paul Casey, who drops to World Number Five.
Ireland’s Padraig Harrington and Swede Henrik Stenson remain sixth and seventh in the World respectively, while Spain’s Sergio Garcia’s joint seventh place in Dubai took him up to eighth.
Until yesterday, Garcia was the only 20 year old to have ever achieved a place in the World’s Top Ten but there is now another member of that exclusive club as Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, third in the Dubai World Championship and beaten into second in The Race to Dubai, had the consolation of moving from 13th to tenth in the World Ranking. Tiger Woods was 21 when he first entered the World’s Top Ten in 1997.
Six Europeans occupy places in the World’s Top Ten for first time in the history of the Official World Golf Rankings, with Race to Dubai winner Lee Westwood leading the line at a career high of World Number Four and Rory McIlroy becoming only the second 20 year old to make the World’s Top Ten.
Westwood’s victory in the Dubai World Championship presented by: DP World moved the Englishman up a place in the latest World Ranking to fourth, matching his previous highest position achieved the last time he was European Number One in 2000.
His six-stroke victory over fellow Englishman Ross McGowan on the Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates took him past the injured Paul Casey, who drops to World Number Five.
Ireland’s Padraig Harrington and Swede Henrik Stenson remain sixth and seventh in the World respectively, while Spain’s Sergio Garcia’s joint seventh place in Dubai took him up to eighth.
Until yesterday, Garcia was the only 20 year old to have ever achieved a place in the World’s Top Ten but there is now another member of that exclusive club as Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, third in the Dubai World Championship and beaten into second in The Race to Dubai, had the consolation of moving from 13th to tenth in the World Ranking. Tiger Woods was 21 when he first entered the World’s Top Ten in 1997.