Another edition of The Masters is in the history books, and, for the second year running at Augusta National, LIV golfers competed at the Major.
It was another respectable showing for the big-money League, too, with eight of the 13 who qualified for the tournament making the cut.
Of those, Brooks Koepka’s world ranking didn’t change after his T45, so he stays 33rd for another week. The defending champion, Jon Rahm, couldn’t repeat the brilliance of the year before and had to settle for the same position on the leaderboard as Koepka. As a result, he dropped a place in the rankings to fourth.
For the other six, though, there were gains in the world rankings, with some of them sizeable and potentially significant.
Bryson DeChambeau
Bryson DeChambeau had the biggest leap in the world rankings of all the LIV golfers at The Masters
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Bryson DeChambeau set the early pace at the tournament and held a one-shot lead after the opening round. That largely set the tone for a mature performance from the American, with the undoubted highlight being a hole-out birdie on the 18th in the third round to keep his Masters dream alive.
In the end, it wasn’t to be, and DeChambeau had to settle for a T6. While the 2020 US Open champion has to wait to claim a second Major title, his world ranking received a huge boost.
The 19 world ranking points DeChambeau gained for his efforts saw him leap 100 places to World No.110. DeChambeau has locked in his appearances at all four Majors through 2025, so his world ranking is perhaps not as important as for others for the time being, but it’s still the highest he’s been for eight months.
Cameron Smith
Cameron Smith’s world ranking boost gives him a better chance of making the Olympics
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While world ranking is probably not the most pressing issue on DeChambeau’s mind, for Australian Smith it very much is. The 2022 Open champion, who was second in the world when he joined LIV in August that year, needs to grab as many points as he can between now and the end of the US Open to have a chance of making the Olympics, something he has admitted he “desperately” hopes to achieve.
Currently, Jason Day, who ranks 21st, and Min Woo Lee, who is 11 places beneath Day, are in the prime positions to make the…
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