PGA Tour Rankings After Bay Hill
Tiger Tops, but Youth Entering the Fedex and Money Standings Leaders
Mar 17, 2008
At this point, most anything written about Tiger Woods’ play this year sounds cliched; dominating, tremendous, fantastic, pure. With Sunday’s win at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Classic, notch up another, historic. Woods has now tied the Hawk, Ben Hogan, in wins with 64. Sometimes it is sad to see the accomplishments of the almost mythic figures of the game’s past go down to Tiger, or anyone else. But, in Tiger Woods, we are fortunate to be watching the best player every to have set foot on a course. He may set records that future generations cannot touch. Every generation says that about it’s own stars, but Tiger, unless he decides to stop short, has much further to go.
There are a few younger players making waves at this early point in the season who have the ability to make a name for themselves this year. J.B. Holmes and Sean O’Hair are already winners this year, and, along with Ryuji Imada, occupy positions in the Fedex Cup standings top-10, and only Imada, sitting at #11, is out of the top-10 money leader rankings. All three can add some new lift to the make-up of the American Ryder Cup team. Again, it’s a long way to Valhalla, though.
Senior Tour player Bart Bryant made the biggest leap this week, jumping from mid-70 rankings in both the Fedex Cup and Money List rankings. He sits at 17th in Fedex Cup points and 18th on the Money List.
Here are the top-25 in the Fedex Cup Standings after the Bay Hill Classic:
- (Last Week, 1) Tiger Woods, 13,725
- (2) Phil Mickelson, 8,553
- (3) K.J. Choi, 6,637
- (4) Justin Leonard, 6,016
- (13) Sean O'Hair, 5,981
- (6) J.B. Holmes, 5,904
- (5) Stewart Cink, 5,867
- (15) Vijay Singh, 5,847
- (7) Ryuji Imada, 5,448
- (8) Steve Stricker, 5,222
- (10) D.J. Trahan, 5,003
- (9) Daniel Chopra, 4,911
- (11) Rory Sabbatini, 4,839
- (12) Steve Lowery, 4,831
- (14) Ernie Els, 4,586
- (16) Luke Donald, 4,412
- (75) Bart Bryant, 3,797
- (19) Steve Marino, 3,693
- (17) Stuart Appleby, 3,608
- (18) Jeff Quinney, 3,479
- (20) Robert Allenby, 3,081
- (21) Brian Gay, 3,050(
- 22) Troy Matteson, 2,797
- (25) Boo Weekley, 2,771
- (23) Nathan Green, 2,727
Here are the top 25 players on the PGA Tour Money List after the Bay Hill Classic:
- (Last Week, 1) Tiger Woods, $3,330,000
- (2) Phil Mickelson, $2,086,320
- (3) K.J. Choi, $1,535,715
- (4) Justin Leonard, $1,479,289
- (5) Stewart Cink, $1,435,462
- (6) J.B. Holmes, $1,428,851
- (11) Vijay Singh, $1,427,417
- (16) Sean O'Hair, $1,295,500
- (7) Daniel Chopra, $1,211,234
- (8) Steve Stricker, $1,190,905
- (9) Ryuji Imada, $1,175,547
- (10) Steve Lowery, $1,151,288
- (12) Rory Sabbatini, $1,053,480
- (13) Luke Donald, $1,043,600
- (15) D.J. Trahan, $1,037,138
- (14) Ernie Els, $1,030,000
- (18) Steve Marino, $884,403
- (77) Bart Bryant, $861,642
- (17) Jeff Quinney, $849,269
- (19 )Stuart Appleby, $820,975
- (20) Brian Gay, $813,710
- (21) Robert Allenby, $711,231
- (30) Brandt Snedeker, $637,525
- (24) Boo Weekley, $632,185
- (48) Hunter Mahan, $624,051
This week, the top players will visit the Blue Monster at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami for the World Golf Championships CA Championship. The PGA Tour’s full-field event is the Puerto Rico Open at Trump International Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. This will mark the first time a PGA Tour event has been held in Puerto Rico.
For more season-long and historical standings, rankings and fantasy golf stats, visit the Weekly PGA Tour Standings Index and the Suite 101 Golf home.
Source: PGATOUR.com.
