SI World Golf Rankings: Rickie Fowler Returns to the Summit
The PGA Tour traveled from Connecticut to Detroit and the birdies kept flying, with 24 under being the mark to make a playoff at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Rickie Fowler, Adam Hadwin and Collin Morikawa went to sudden death and Fowler ended it on the first hole with a birdie. The win halted a four-year drought and also gave Fowler a nice boost in this week's SI World Golf Rankings.
The SIWGR is our proprietary, data-driven list of the top men's golfers in the world at this moment. (Here’s how we do our calculations.) Fowler won at Detroit Golf Club while Talor Gooch cashed a $4 million check in winning LIV Golf's first event in Spain, and those two results meant some movement in the SIWGR this week. Here's a look at a few risers and fallers.
3 Risers in the SI World Golf Rankings
Rickie Fowler — Up 11 Spots
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This Week: 16
Last Week: 27
Skinny: Shot rounds of 67-65-64-68 in Detroit and won in a playoff. Will take plenty of confidence overseas for the year's final major and may find himself on the U.S. Ryder Cup team in September.
Adam Hadwin — Up 12 Spots
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This Week: 56
Last Week: 68
Skinny: Had his best individual finish of the season in the playoff loss at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Hadwin was classy in defeat, not putting himself in position to be tackled by any rogue security guards.
Bryson DeChambeau — Up 9 Spots
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This Week: 25
Last Week: 34
Skinny: Finished second to Talor Gooch at LIV Golf's first event in Spain. Also finished T20 at the U.S. Open and T9 in LIV Golf's event prior to that, in Washington, D.C. Golf's a little more fun when Bryson is playing well, no?
3 Fallers in the SI World Golf Rankings
J.T. Poston — Down 14 Spots
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This Week: 100
Last Week: 86
Skinny: Did not play at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and lost his 2022 John Deere Classic win from SIWGR calculations, as we use the most recent 12 months of player results.
Branden Grace — Down 12 Spots
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This Week: 53
Last Week: 41
Skinny: T31 at LIV Golf's Spain event but lost last year's win at LIV Golf's tournament at Pumpkin Ridge from his SIWGR calculations, as we use the most recent 12 months of player results.
Richard Bland — Down 11 Spots
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This Week: 81
Last Week: 70
Skinny: T23 at LIV Golf's Spain event (after incurring a rare one-shot slow play penalty) and lost a T27 at last year's LIV Golf's tournament at Pumpkin Ridge from his SIWGR calculations.