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Danny Lee moves up to World Ranked Number 9 following Lake Macquarie Mens Golf Championship victory

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Danny Lee of New Zealand moved up five places to No 9 in The R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking with his victory in the prestigious Lake Macquarie event at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Lake Macquarie victory moves Danny Lee to WAGR No 9

Lee has already finished second in the New Zealand Under-23 Championship this season and was leading individual in the Under-23 Team event.  The young player from Bay of Plenty won the Bledisloe Cup as leading amateur in the 2007 New Zealand Open with a three-under-par 69 in the final round.

In South Africa Johan Du Buisson was the winner of the Prince’s Grant Amateur Open and Dean O’Riley took the KwaZulu-Natal Amateur title at Selbourne.

Daniel Weisenberg (USA) entered the Ranking for the first time with victory in the Battle of the Cats at Lake Wales in Florida.

Nicolas Geyger of Chile, who won the Landfall Tradition event last year, captured the Abierto Rocas de Santo Domingo and in Bukit, Malaysia, the KL Amateur was won by Alex Tiong.

Latest top 20 rankings as follows.

1	1		Rickie Fowler	USA	39	1158.97
2	2		Daniel Willett	ENG	43	1093.02
3	3		Michael Thompson	USA	63	1092.06
4	4		Webb Simpson	USA	61	1042.62
5	5		Jamie Lovemark	USA	61	1032.79
6	6		Rohan Blizard	AUS	82	993.90
7	7		Kevin Chappell	USA	58	972.41
8	8		Chesson Hadley	USA	33	966.67
9	14	+5	Danny Lee	NZL	83	962.65
10	9	-1	Kyle Stanley	USA	69	962.32
11	10	-1	Joel Sjoholm	SWE	54	951.85
12	11	-1	Seung Su Han	KOR	67	937.31
13	12	-1	Rob Grube	USA	66	930.30
14	13	-1	Billy Horschel	USA	60	925.00
15	15		Jhonatton Vegas	VEN	33	915.15
16	16		Cameron Tringale	USA	60	891.67
17	17		Bjorn Akesson	SWE	43	888.37
18	18		Chris Wood	ENG	57	887.72
19	19		Esteban Martinez	ARG	42	880.95
20	21	+1	Gary Wolstenholme	ENG	57	877.19

Source: Randa