Kim Joo-hyeong (20), who won the PGA Tour’s Shrein’s Children’s Open and scored two career wins in two months, jumped to 15th place in the world rankings.
In the men’s weekly golf world rankings announced on 10th, Kim Joo-hyung climbed from 21st last week to 15th.
He overtook Im Seong-jae (24) in 20th place and ranks first for a Korean player.
Kim Joo-hyung, who started at number 131 on the world rankings this year, climbed into the top 80 to take first and second place on the Asian Professional Golf Tour, and climbed to the top of the rankings at high speed by jumping to 21. Place at the PGA Tour Wyndham Championship in August.
Im Seong-jae dropped one place from 19th to 20th, releasing the highest ranking Korean players he had held for a long time.
While Lee Kyung-hoon (31) maintained 43rd place, Kim Si-woo (27) moved up slightly from 79th to 73rd.
PGA Tour rookie Kim Seong-hyeon (24), who tied for fourth place at the Schreiners Children’s Open, jumped from 168th to 131st.
Kim Young-soo (33), who won the KPGA Korean Tour Genesis Championship, which finished on the 9th, went from 554 to 444.
Scotty Schaeffler (USA) held first place, followed by Cameron Smith (Australia), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Patrick Cantlay (USA) and Jon Lam (Spain).
/ yunhap news
