SI World Golf Rankings: Corey Conners, Brooks Koepka Make Big Moves After Victories

Conners and Koepka roll into Augusta this week, while a few other players plummeted in our latest top 100 list.

Jeff Ritter | Apr 3, 2023

SI World Golf Rankings: Corey Conners, Brooks Koepka Make Big Moves After Victories /

Masters week is here, and there have been more big moves in the SI World Golf Rankings as part of the lead-in.

Corey Conners emerged from San Antonio as a one-shot winner at the Valero, and he popped 19 spots in our latest top 100 list, up to No. 34. On the LIV Golf circuit, Brooks Koepka earned his second title on the new tour and moved up 18 spots to 53.

As a reminder, one of the key differences between the SIWGR and the OWGR is how the Sports Illustrated list only uses a player’s most recent 12 months of results when doing their calculation. And the most recent four months of results are weighted the strongest. This make our list more volatile than the OWGR. Here’s more on our calculations and how we run this. We also treat LIV Golf like any other tour, so their golfers receive points in the SIWGR for their results.

Here's the latest list of SI World Golf Rankings risers and fallers for the week of April 3.

3 Risers in the SI World Golf Rankings

Corey Conners

This week: 34

Last week: 53

Skinny: Won the Valero Texas Open for his second career PGA Tour title, both of which came at the Valero. Rolls into Augusta looking to make noise in a major

Brooks Koepka

This week: 53

Last week: 71

Skinny: Won last week's LIV event in Orlando for his second title on that tour. Perhaps major-winning mojo is restored just in time: the four-time major champ has never claimed a green jacket.

Sebastian Munoz

This week: 35

Last week: 81

Skinny: Runner-up to Koepka at LIV Orlando. Not in the field at Augusta.

3 Fallers in the SI World Golf Rankings

J.J. Spaun

This week: 71

Last week: 49

Skinny: Respectable T22 in Valero, but won the event last year, which just fell off his ranking calculation, as the SIWGR only uses the most recent 12 months of data.

Anirban Lahiri

This week: 96

Last week: 86

Skinny: DNP at last week’s LIV event. Lost a T13 at last year’s Valero from his calculation.

Rickie Fowler

This week: 45

Last week: 40

Skinny: Gave it a good run to try to sneak into the Masters field but finished T10 in Texas.

Published Apr 3, 2023

JEFF RITTER

Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business's growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.