The Spaniard Jon Rahm has risen to fifth place in the world golf ranking, which is still commanded by the American Scottie Scheffler and in which his compatriot Will Zalatoris is ninth after winning the FedEx St. Jude this Sunday.
The player from Barrika, who came back on the last day to fifth place in the Memphis tournament, obtained his best position on the American circuit since he won the Mexican Open in January.
This allows him to place himself with an average of 7.20 and overtake the North American Xander Schauffele (7.06).
Scheffler holds number one solidly (10.04) ahead of Australian Cameron Smith (8.92), Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (8.09) and American Patrick Cantlay (7.52).
Zalatoris overtook the Austrian Sepp Straka in the tiebreaker and is the star of the most outstanding progression, going from fourteenth to ninth place, already very close to his compatriots Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa.
Adri Arnaus continues to be the second best Spaniard, despite falling to 66th place, and Pablo Larrazábal is now third, in 69th place, two ahead of Sergio García.
