MEN’S AMATEUR TOP 10
Charles Corner made the biggest move among the Top 10, picking up 36 spots in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for third at the Arizona Intercollegiate. It was the first top-10 result of the year for the senior at UTEP who never fell out of the top five on the leaderboard at the event.
No. 1 Hugo Bernard continues to improve upon his career-best world ranking, climbing nine spots up to No. 63 in the world.
Fellow Golf Canada National Team member Joey Savoie climbed three places following his performance at the NSW Amateur. After finishing 12th in the stroke play portion of the event, Savoie advanced to the quarter-finals in match play before falling to one of the eventual finalists in the tournament.
Biggest move: Jared Nicolls gained 308 spots in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for 84th at the Arizona Intercollegiate. Nicolls is a junior at South Dakota State who hails from Ponoka, Alberta.
| HOMETOWN | SCHOOL | WR | + / – | ||
| 1. | Hugo Bernard | Mont St-Hilaire, QC | Univ. of Montreal | 63 | +9 |
| 2. | Garrett Rank | Elmira, ON | – | 79 | -3 |
| 3. | Joey Savoie | La Prairie, QC | – | 153 | +3 |
| 4. | Chris Crisologo | Richmond, B.C. | Simon Fraser Univ. | 229 | +3 |
| 5. | Josh Whalen | Napanee, ON | Kent State | 258 | – |
| 6. | Charles Corner | Cayuga, ON | UTEP | 324 | +36 |
| 7. | Matt Williams | Calgary, AB | Houston | 392 | – |
| 8. | Emmett Oh | Calgary, AB | – | 398 | +1 |
| 9. | Lawren Rowe | Victoria, BC | Univ. of Victoria | 406 | +2 |
| 10. | Blair Bursey | Gander, NFLD | Utah Valley | 441 | +2 |
Complete World Amateur Golf Rankings can be found here.
WOMEN’S AMATEUR TOP 10
No significant changes in the Top-10 as the women’s collegiate golf season gets back into full swing following the winter break.
Biggest Move: Madison Easterbrook gained six places in the world rankings. The Burlington, Ont., freshman at Florida Gulf Coast University posted a tie for 38th in her first tournament at the USF Intercollegiate just prior to the winter break.
| HOMETOWN | SCHOOL | WR | + / – | ||
| 1. | Maddie Szeryk | Allen, TX | Texas A&M | 24 | – |
| 2. | Jaclyn Lee | Calgary, AB | Ohio State | 121 | – |
| 3. | Naomi Ko | Victoria, BC | NC State | 127 | – |
| 4. | Vanessa Ha | Montreal, QC | San Francisco | 266 | +1 |
| 5. | Grace St-Germain | Ottawa | Daytona St. | 276 | – |
| 6. | Jessica Ip | Richmond Hill, ON | Iowa | 381 | +1 |
| 7. | Celeste Dao | Notre-Dame, QC | (Team Canada) | 413 | -1 |
| 8. | Michelle Kim | Surrey, BC | Idaho | 438 | – |
| 9. | Valerie Tanguay | St-Hyacinthe, QC | Oklahoma | 471 | +2 |
| 10. | Michelle Ruiz | Mississauga, ON | Nova Southeastern | 477 | +2 |
Complete World Amateur Golf Rankings can be found here.
MEN’S TOP 10
Roger Sloan made the biggest move among the Top 10, picking up 105 spots in the world rankings after his fourth place finish at the Web.com Tour Panama Championship. It was his first points-paying result of the year, worth 4.20 world ranking points. The result also enabled Sloan to move up to No. 9 in the Canadian rankings.
Adam Svensson, coming off his first career Web.com Tour victory, jumped 21 places in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for seventh at the Web.com Tour Panama Championship. It’s his second straight top 10 result and was worth 2.21 world ranking points. He’s gained 338 spots in the last two weeks to reach a career-best 358 in the world rankings..
Benjamin Silverman picked up 11 spots in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for 48th at the PGA’s Waste Management Phoenix Open. The result was worth 1.53 world ranking points, his first points paying result since the new year.
Outside the Top 10, Ryan Yip gained 254 spots in the world rankings after finished in a tie for fifth at the Web.com Tour Panama Championship. It’s his second straight top 10 result on the development tour and was worth 3.08 world ranking points. Yip also moved up four spots in the Canadian rankings, up to No. 12.
Other notable results: No. 1 Adam Hadwin finished tied 43rd at PGA Waste Management Phoenix Open; No. 3 Mackenzie Hughes missed the cut at PGA Waste Management Phoenix Open; No. 4 Nick Taylor finished tied 52nd at PGA Waste Management Phoenix Open; No. 5 Austin Connelly finished tied 62nd at Asian Tour/European Tour Maybank Championship; No. 10 Richard T Lee missed the cut at Asian Tour/European Tour Maybank Championship;
| HOMETOWN | TOUR | WR | + / – | ||
| 1. | Adam Hadwin | Abbotsford, BC | PGA | 54 | – |
| 2. | Graham DeLaet | Weyburn, SK | PGA | 123 | +1 |
| 3. | Mackenzie Hughes | Dundas, ON | PGA | 163 | -9 |
| 4. | Nick Taylor | Abbotsford, BC | PGA | 197 | +3 |
| 5. | Austin Connelly | Irving, TX | EUR | 238 | -7 |
| 6. | Benjamin Silverman | Thornhill, ON | PGA | 254 | +11 |
| 7. | David Hearn | Brantford, ON | PGA | 327 | -8 |
| 8. | Adam Svensson | Surrey, BC | WEB | 358 | +21 |
| 9. | Roger Sloan | Merritt, BC | WEB | 473 | +105 |
| 10. | Richard T Lee | Toronto, ON | ASIA | 479 | -4 |
Click here for Men’s Official World Golf Rankings.
WOMEN’S TOP 10
Alena Sharp, the No. 2 ranked player in Canada, gained four places in the world rankings and moved to No. 99 in the world. It marks the first time she’s been back inside the Top 100 since last October.
Of note, both Kyla Inaba and Lorie Kane have both dropped off the Rolex World Rankings list. Both missed the cut at the Oates Vic Open on the Australian LPGA Tour.
| HOMETOWN | TOUR | WR | + / – | ||
| 1. | Brooke Henderson | Smiths Falls, ON | LPGA | 14 | – |
| 2. | Alena Sharp | Hamilton, ON | LPGA | 99 | +4 |
| 3. | Maude-Aimee Leblanc | Sherbrooke, QC | LPGA | 287 | +2 |
| 4. | Anne-Catherine Tanguay | Quebec City, QC | LPGA | 372 | -2 |
| 5. | Brittany Marchand | Orangeville, ON | LPGA | 405 | – |
| 6. | Augusta James | Bath, ON | SYMT | 479 | -7 |
| 7. | Samantha Richdale | Kelowna, BC | SYMT | 625 | -7 |
| 8. | Jennifer Ha | Calgary, AB | SYMT | 725 | -3 |
| 9. | Jessica Wallace | Langley, BC | – | 767 | -6 |
| 10. | Elizabeth Tong | Thornhill, ON | SYMT | 777 | -4 |
Click here for full Women’s Rolex World Rankings.