Brooks Koepka suffers as he slips out of top 100 in latest OWGR update
Brooks Koepka has become the latest LIV Golf-affiliated professional to slip out of the top 100 in the OWGR.
Since defecting to LIV Golf, Koepka has played three ranking points offering tournaments but couldn't do much in them. He failed to make the cut in International Series Oman, the last OWGR-sanctioned event he played. This is the first time since December 2013, that the four-time major is out of the top 100.
Koepka was World No. 1 three years back after a great run where he won four majors in two and a half years.
Before Koepka slipped in the rankings, 2020 US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau met the same fate when he dropped out of the top 100 last month for the first time in more than five years. DeChambeau is currently at World No. 131.
Louis Oosthuizen is World No. 100 at the moment. He has been inside the top 100 since 2009 but it seems unlikely that it will continue like this. Anirban Lahiri is another golfer who might be out of the top 100 soon as the Indian sits at 99. Paul Casey is another LIV professional on the verge of sliding out of the top 100 as he is at No. 94. Casey has been inside the top 100 since 2014.
Dustin Johnson, who has spent the third-highest number of weeks at the top of Official World Golf Rankings, recently slipped out of the top 50 for the first time in 13 years. He's at World No. 62 at the moment.
There are not many chances for the Saudi-backed circuit professionals to earn ranking points as they have been suspended from the PGA Tour and DP World Tour events and their OWGR fate lies in the hands of the four men's majors and a handful of events.
LIV professionals will next be featured in the Tucson event, the second destination of the LIV Golf League. Again, it will be devoid of any ranking points.
Scottie Scheffler returns to OWGR No. 1 after The Players Championship victory
Scottie Scheffler is back at the top of the World Golf Rankings as he won his second title of the year by clinching the 2023 Players Championship. Scheffler beat England's Tyrrell Hatton by a five-stroke difference. This is the second time this year that he is back at World No. 1.
Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm have been fighting for the top position throughout this year, with ranking dynamics getting changed with every tournament. While Rahm has won three events this year, the American has won two.
The Spaniard displaced Scheffler last month after his Genesis triumph. However, a bad outing at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and forced withdrawal at TPC Sawgrass meant he slipped from the World No. 1 position. Rory McIlroy's poor performance at The Players also helped Scottie regain the top position.
Spain’s Jorge Campillo jumped to World No. 159 in the OWGR after winning the DP World Tour's Magical Kenya Open by a two-stroke margin over Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura.