Unsung player leads Tiger, Phil in OWGR points earned
- By Jason Sobel
- Feb 8, 2013 4:34 PM ET
Through the first month of the 2013 golf campaign, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see some of the game’s biggest names earn the most world ranking points so far.
Thanks to a pair of runner-up finishes, Brandt Snedeker leads all players with 77.02 total points gained, which has propelled him up to a career-best sixth in the world. Not far behind in third and fourth place for total points gained are Phil Mickelson (54.67) and Tiger Woods (50.00), respectively, as each has won a PGA Tour event already.
The big surprise is sandwiched between those players, as unsung Jamie Donaldson (58.59) has the second-most points earned so far this year.
Of course, 54.00 of those points came in one tournament when Donaldson won the star-studded Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. He is now ranked 30th in the world and second in the Race to Dubai.
Donaldson will compete in his first WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in two weeks and is all but assured of competing in his first Masters this April.
Sobel has covered golf since 2004 and provides columns, blogs, chats for Golf Channel.
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