SI World Golf Rankings: Matt Fitzpatrick Returns to Top 10

Fitzpatrick beat an elite field at Harbour Town, and he's not the only player to see a big swing in his ranking this week.

Jeff Ritter | Apr 17, 2023

SI World Golf Rankings: Matt Fitzpatrick Returns to Top 10 /

Matt Fitzpatrick clipped Jordan Spieth in sudden death at the RBC Heritage to win his first non-major PGA Tour event, and he beat an elite field to earn the W. No surprise to see Fitzpatrick make a big move in this week’s Sports Illustrated World Golf Rankings, as he jumps eight spots to No. 7 in the world.

The SIWGR differs from the Official World Golf Rankings in several areas, including how we do the calculation, and how we only use the most recent 12 months of player results for our list, compared to 24 for the OWGR. (Fitzpatrick moved up to No. 8 on the OWGR.)

But he wasn’t the only player to see a big SIWGR swing after the RBC Heritage. Here are some other notable risers and fallers this week.

3 Risers in SI World Golf Rankings

1

Matt Fitzpatrick

This week: 7

Last week: 15

Skinny: Won the RBC Heritage in sudden death over Jordan Spieth.

2

Taylor Moore

This week: 39

Last week: 51

Skinny: T11 in Harbour Town, he’s also up to 13th in the FedEx Cup point race.

3

Emiliano Grillo

This week: 71

Last week: 91

Skinny: T7 in Harbour Town for the former Presidents Cupper.

3 Fallers in the SI World Golf Rankings

1

Si Woo Kim

This week: 43

Last week: 36

Skinny: MC at Harbour Town last week. In the 2022 event, Kim finished T42, but he just lost that result from his SIWGR calculations.

2

Shane Lowry

This week: 53

Last week: 38

Skinny: Like Kim, had a subpar week (T67) which replaced a much better result in this event from 2022 (T3).

3

Talor Gooch

This week: 79

Last week: 72

Skinny: There was no LIV Golf event last week, though that tour will play this weekend in Australia, giving Gooch a chance to earn points toward our list.

Published Apr 17, 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.