Here are GolfChannel.com’s Power Rankings, a weekly barometer of the hottest players in the game:
| Rank | Change | Player | Comment | | 1 | – |
Phil Mickelson | Hard not to keep Lefty atop ranking, but consider this: in 14 Open Championships he has just a single top-10 and in three starts at St. Andrews his best showing is a T-11 (2000). Just a thought. |
| | 2 | – |
Graeme McDowell | They are still celebrating in Portrush, and it’s hard not to like the Northern Irishman at the Open Championship. |
| | 3 | 1 |
Lee Westwood | “Best Player Never to Win a Major” is not even the top European in the Power Ranking anymore, but we still like him at St. Andrews. |
| | 4 | 2 |
Justin Rose
| Sunday struggles at TPC River Highlands aside, Englishman has separated himself from the pack over the last month.
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| | 5 | 2 |
Tim Clark | As predicted, new groove rule has given the likes of Clark and Luke Donald an edge over their big-hitting fraternity brothers.
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| | 6 | 3 |
Ernie Els | Missed cut at BMW International Open was likely the byproduct of jet lag more so than a lagging game.
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| | 7 | 2 |
Jim Furyk | Other than Woods, Furyk is the only player in the top 10 in action this week at AT&T National and tree-lined Aronimink Golf Club is a perfect fit for him. |
| | 8 | NR |
Bubba Watson | Gets first victory in style, but the Travelers is his first top-10 since March. Still enough to crack the top 10 this week. |
| | 9 | 1 |
Dustin Johnson
| Luckily, he’s currently fifth on the U.S. Ryder Cup points list, but make no mistake, the athletic American would be a lottery pick for any team. |
| | 10 | 1 |
Bo Van Pelt | Eighteen starts, three missed cuts and $1.9 million in single-season earnings. In baseball, that’s called hitting for average. |
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