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Joint victory in Sotogrande Cup moves Ireland’s Shane Lowry into top 40 of R&A World Mens Rankings

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A tie for first place in the Sotogrande Cup - European Nations in Spain has promoted Shane Lowry of Ireland (pictured below) 35 places to No 39 on The R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking. He shared the title with Benjamin Hebert of France, the current European Amateur champion.

 

A top-30 finish in the same event moved Franch No 1 Alexandre Kaleka up two spots to No 20. In the USA Chesson Hadley climbed one place to No 10 with a share of 18th place in the Administaff ASU Invitational at Champions Retreat, Georgia.

Lowry is the current Irish Closed champion and an Irish international who will represent Europe in the Michael Bonallack Trophy against Asia-Pacific at Valderrama at the end of the month. He celebrated his 21st birthday last week with victory in the West of Ireland Amateur Championship at County Sligo.

Kaleka, who will be 19 next month, is picking up where he left off last season when he finished eighth in the Lytham Trophy, was runner-up in the Scottish Stroke Play and claimed third place in the St Andrews Links Trophy.

Hadley had a good finish in last week’s United States Collegiate Championship at Lakeside in Georgia and earlier this season was fourth in the Puerto Rico Classic. The highlight of a strong 2007 was victory in the Carpet Capital Collegiate.

Latest Top 20 Positions as Follows.

1     1         Daniel Willett     ENG     35     1477.14
2     2         Rickie Fowler     USA     44     1225.00
3     3         Michael Thompson USA     66     1101.52
4     4         Webb Simpson     USA     59     1059.32
5     5         Jamie Lovemark     USA     61     1036.07
6     6         Joel Sjoholm     SWE     59     1022.03
7     7         Derik Ferreira     RSA     52     1003.85
8     9     +1     Kevin Chappell     USA     57     998.25
9     8     -1     Danny Lee     NZL     75     990.67
10     11     +1     Chesson Hadley     USA     47     963.83
11     10     -1     Nigel Edwards     WAL     45     960.00
12     12         Esteban Martinez ARG     44     959.09
13     13         Kyle Stanley     USA     74     952.70
14     17     +3     Jacques Blaauw     RSA     38     947.37
15     14     -1     Seung Su Han     KOR     68     939.71
16     15     -1     Derek Fathauer     USA     58     936.21
17     16     -1     Rob Grube     USA     60     925.00
18     18         Cameron Tringale USA     65     913.85
19     20     +1     Jonas Blixt     SWE     53     909.43
20     22     +2     Alexandre Kaleka FRA     42     902.38