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Spain’s Jorge Campillo moves into top 20 of R&A Mens World Amateur Golf Rankings

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Spain’s leading amateur player, Jorge Campillo (pictured below) has moved up four places to No 19 in The R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking with his latest good finish in the Ping Arizona Intercollegiate at Tucson which was won by Kevin Chappell of the USA.

Campillo reached the quarter-finals of The Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes last year, losing by one hole to Tim Stewart of Australia and finished ninth in the European Amateur. He was also second to world-ranked No 1 Ricky Fowler in the Olympia Fields Invitational.

Rufino Bayron won the Philippines National Amateur at Canlubang and Ryan Clarke took the title in the Gateng North Open at Irene in South Africa.

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Amr Abouelela of Egypt gained a place in the Ranking for the first time with his performance as leading individual in the Pan Arab Men’s Team event.

Top 20 Rankings as Follows.

1 1 Rickie Fowler USA 36 1175.00
2 2 Daniel Willett ENG 43 1093.02
3 3 Michael Thompson USA 60 1086.67
4 4 Webb Simpson USA 58 1051.72
5 5 Jamie Lovemark USA 61 1032.79
6 7 +1 Kevin Chappell USA 61 1016.39
7 6 -1 Rohan Blizard AUS 82 993.90
8 8 Chesson Hadley USA 33 966.67
9 10 +1 Kyle Stanley USA 66 963.64
10 9 -1 Danny Lee NZL 83 962.65
11 11 Joel Sjoholm SWE 54 951.85
12 12 Seung Su Han KOR 70 930.00
13 14 +1 Billy Horschel USA 60 925.00
14 13 -1 Rob Grube USA 63 919.05
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 23 +4 Jorge Campillo ESP 48 883.33
20 19 -1 Esteban Martinez ARG 42 880.95

Source: R&A