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Week 48 - 03/12/2023

The Editorial Team

Monday 4th of December

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Joaquin Niemann has won the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in a playoff after a final round 66 for a 14-under, 271 total.
Rikuya Hoshino came second, Min Woo Lee finished third at 12-under and Grant Forrest, Laurie Canter and Adam Scott tied for fourth at 11-under.

Niemann moves up to 59 from 82 this week, Hoshino up twenty places to 92, Lee up three to 35, Forrest up eight to 137, Canter to 253 from 299 and Scott up two to 44.

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Dean Burmester has won the Investec South African Open Championship with a final round 68 for an 11-under, 277 total.
Ryan van Velzen, Renato Paratore and Jesper Svensson came second at 8-under.

Burmester moves up to 77 from 106, van Velzen to 463 from 644, Paratore to 428 from 438 and Svensson to 281 from 344.

Investec South African Open Championship 2023 R4

Related: Back-to-back wins for Dean Burmester in South Africa

Investec South African Open Championship R4

This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2023)	Points Won (2023)	Events
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	10.69	481.09	-414.04	457.96	45
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.13	401.68	-323.87	327.86	44
3	3	Spain	Jon Rahm	8.31	373.95	-317.47	403.96	45
4	4	Norway	Viktor Hovland	6.94	347.25	-253.69	329.07	50
5	5	United States	Patrick Cantlay	5.92	236.89	-246.40	192.77	39
6	6	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.73	246.51	-225.37	205.75	43
7	7	United States	Max Homa	5.00	230.07	-177.68	220.58	46
8	8	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	4.80	249.74	-213.05	199.35	52
9	9	United States	Brian Harman	4.51	229.96	-119.03	195.54	51
10	10	United States	Wyndham Clark	4.25	221.25	-70.08	242.29	53
11	11	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	4.08	212.40	-135.84	160.55	52
12	12	England	Tyrrell Hatton	4.02	200.84	-135.92	202.46	50
13	13	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.93	200.31	-127.62	171.33	51
14	14	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.90	175.72	-223.30	172.47	45
15	15	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.67	161.58	-113.79	148.26	44
16	16	United States	Jordan Spieth	3.65	167.92	-183.94	158.04	46
17	17	United States	Brooks Koepka	3.45	138.13	-98.38	161.11	20
18	18	United States	Cameron Young	3.37	161.77	-160.11	124.31	48
19	21	Australia	Jason Day	3.36	134.57	-62.07	149.16	40
20	24	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.36	174.75	-116.68	150.02	58
21	22	United States	Tony Finau	3.30	164.90	-192.50	107.15	50
22	19	United States	Sam Burns	3.29	154.58	-201.86	136.55	47
23	20	Australia	Cameron Smith	3.28	131.31	-231.34	60.04	25
24	23	United States	Rickie Fowler	3.19	143.58	-65.09	153.20	45
25	25	United States	Russell Henley	3.12	130.99	-94.32	111.29	42
26	27	United States	Justin Thomas	3.07	135.09	-196.90	88.39	44
27	26	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	2.89	150.13	-164.68	128.64	54
28	28	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.85	142.60	-90.15	106.20	50
29	29	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.78	130.78	-96.47	117.50	47
30	31	United States	Lucas Glover	2.77	144.17	-58.38	137.77	54
31	30	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.76	143.37	-93.64	123.69	56
32	32	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	2.69	107.57	-3.51	111.08	18
33	33	United States	Will Zalatoris	2.52	100.75	-186.30	31.74	26
34	34	Canada	Corey Conners	2.47	121.26	-115.67	110.33	49
35	38	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.45	122.69	-78.90	118.07	50
36	35	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.45	122.39	-75.18	120.58	50
37	36	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.39	110.00	-136.62	74.37	46
38	37	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	2.39	124.06	-68.07	116.35	53
39	39	England	Justin Rose	2.34	96.12	-73.28	108.69	41
40	40	United States	Harris English	2.27	90.89	-81.69	103.34	39
41	42	United States	Eric Cole	2.20	114.41	-31.05	123.63	61
42	41	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	2.17	95.46	-152.96	84.35	44
43	43	Australia	Cameron Davis	2.15	111.74	-72.70	104.74	53
44	46	Australia	Adam Scott	2.14	98.26	-88.02	81.88	46
45	44	United States	J.T. Poston	2.13	110.79	-74.58	91.72	54
46	45	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	2.10	109.40	-87.05	119.99	54
47	47	United States	Adam Schenk	2.07	107.89	-55.69	116.63	61
48	48	Poland	Adrian Meronk	2.03	105.53	-76.60	86.98	54
49	49	Canada	Adam Hadwin	2.01	92.53	-67.27	80.60	46
50	50	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.94	100.99	-55.80	103.87	53
51	51	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.92	97.83	-49.64	113.13	51
52	52	United States	Chris Kirk	1.90	91.25	-80.13	100.18	48
53	53	United States	Taylor Moore	1.85	96.29	-64.76	102.65	52
54	54	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.74	78.29	-59.93	75.94	45
55	55	Sweden	Alex Noren	1.70	86.60	-85.88	55.57	51
56	56	United States	Brendon Todd	1.69	82.70	-55.78	76.93	49
57	57	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	1.68	87.13	-63.82	70.96	55
58	59	Canada	Adam Svensson	1.65	85.87	-62.05	65.35	58
59	82	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.64	65.54	-121.95	35.64	26
60	58	United States	Billy Horschel	1.64	81.77	-148.11	42.01	50
61	60	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	1.62	81.16	-36.40	79.71	50
62	61	United States	Lee Hodges	1.61	83.86	-42.85	81.26	55
63	62	United States	Tom Hoge	1.60	83.02	-118.09	76.68	57
64	63	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.56	81.19	-63.28	66.58	56
65	64	England	Aaron Rai	1.53	79.56	-49.17	73.88	59
66	65	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.51	78.49	-80.39	56.54	52
67	66	Australia	Lucas Herbert	1.48	72.76	-78.93	70.51	49
68	67	United States	Justin Suh	1.46	75.99	-42.63	68.64	59
69	68	France	Victor Perez	1.45	68.10	-54.17	62.86	47
70	69	England	Matt Wallace	1.45	75.23	-42.74	72.36	62
71	71	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.42	68.07	-81.17	63.11	48
72	70	United States	Patrick Reed	1.42	56.72	-77.16	58.94	30
73	73	England	Jordan Smith	1.41	72.09	-57.34	53.01	51
74	75	Sweden	Vincent Norrman	1.41	73.33	-19.44	72.17	57
75	72	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.40	65.95	-99.93	36.74	47
76	74	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	1.40	72.90	-95.46	46.41	57
77	106	South Africa	Dean Burmester	1.40	55.88	-69.27	33.25	38
78	76	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	1.37	62.83	-41.10	65.76	46
79	81	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.35	70.05	-32.32	60.98	62
80	77	United States	Beau Hossler	1.35	69.94	-41.63	64.52	53
81	78	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.34	65.77	-39.01	62.35	49
82	79	United States	Alex Smalley	1.32	68.62	-49.07	53.55	56
83	80	United States	Taylor Montgomery	1.31	65.54	-57.01	43.97	50
84	85	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.30	67.74	-59.34	46.00	66
85	83	United States	Luke List	1.29	66.86	-63.50	60.40	52
86	84	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.28	64.02	-48.78	48.35	50
87	88	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.26	61.70	-53.59	61.76	49
88	86	United States	Gary Woodland	1.25	53.96	-57.41	48.83	43
89	87	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.25	65.01	-63.16	52.46	53
90	90	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.24	64.26	-58.21	46.24	55
91	89	Spain	Pablo Larrazabal	1.23	55.44	-56.54	48.04	45
92	112	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	1.22	63.43	-50.33	51.03	55
93	92	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.21	62.84	-43.77	55.06	55
94	96	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.21	53.09	-21.67	52.79	44
95	91	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.20	59.95	-27.36	57.51	50
96	95	France	Matthieu Pavon	1.18	61.37	-36.70	54.90	55
97	93	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.18	61.27	-42.57	54.97	61
98	94	United States	Ben Griffin	1.18	61.11	-39.08	53.17	60
99	98	Germany	Yannik Paul	1.15	59.86	-42.50	49.09	56
100	97	Spain	Adrian Otaegui	1.15	59.74	-52.79	33.27	53
101	99	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.14	51.47	-43.69	37.96	45
102	100	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.14	59.42	-42.74	53.02	56
103	102	United States	Zac Blair	1.14	45.54	-10.10	48.65	32
104	101	United States	Scott Stallings	1.14	57.92	-66.11	31.67	51
105	103	United States	Sam Ryder	1.13	58.82	-36.46	62.10	56
106	104	Chile	Guillermo Mito Pereira	1.10	44.18	-80.66	18.56	29
107	105	United States	Chez Reavie	1.09	56.77	-47.67	48.33	53
108	107	Spain	Jorge Campillo	1.09	56.76	-32.65	54.45	61
109	108	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.08	56.36	-21.56	50.65	53
110	110	United States	Akshay Bhatia	1.07	55.75	-20.40	61.68	53
111	109	United States	Brandon Wu	1.07	55.74	-40.45	52.13	55
112	124	Japan	Taiga Semikawa	1.07	44.79	-15.74	37.92	42
113	111	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	1.06	44.50	-11.07	46.97	42
114	114	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.04	54.05	-67.82	41.19	55
115	113	United States	Davis Thompson	1.04	52.81	-36.04	52.85	51
116	126	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.02	52.97	-49.28	54.08	52
117	116	Sweden	David Lingmerth	1.01	51.70	-30.34	42.13	51
117	115	United States	Hayden Buckley	1.01	51.69	-46.29	55.01	51
119	118	United States	Ben Kohles	1.01	47.58	-15.46	53.75	47
120	119	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	1.01	48.38	-18.87	50.48	48
121	121	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.00	40.05	-18.62	41.26	40
122	122	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	1.00	52.06	-42.80	41.18	57
123	117	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	1.00	39.98	-110.28	35.02	25
124	123	United States	Phil Mickelson	1.00	39.93	-42.92	51.58	11
125	133	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.99	39.75	-5.28	38.99	40
126	120	United States	Aaron Wise	0.99	39.54	-80.48	6.54	35
127	125	United States	Michael Kim	0.99	51.36	-24.00	49.67	58
128	131	United States	Chan Kim	0.97	48.47	-39.09	41.09	50
129	128	France	Romain Langasque	0.97	50.21	-32.09	47.69	58
130	127	United States	Davis Riley	0.96	49.97	-63.32	29.20	55
131	129	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.96	49.77	-42.66	44.36	61
132	130	United States	Samuel Stevens	0.95	49.56	-22.00	55.77	59
133	132	France	Antoine Rozner	0.95	49.28	-38.03	34.46	56
134	134	England	Nathan Kimsey	0.94	42.11	-20.14	31.95	45
135	135	United States	Grayson Murray	0.94	43.98	-10.63	45.65	47
136	137	Scotland	Connor Syme	0.93	48.26	-30.90	36.32	56
137	145	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.93	48.21	-32.61	47.16	58
138	136	England	Callum Shinkwin	0.92	38.47	-39.52	19.83	42
139	138	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.91	47.15	-29.49	44.44	56
140	139	United States	Matthew NeSmith	0.90	46.65	-48.09	25.37	52
141	140	United States	Kevin Streelman	0.90	46.60	-47.72	38.89	52
142	141	United States	Robby Shelton IV	0.88	45.97	-34.27	32.02	58
143	143	United States	Tyler Duncan(Jul1989)	0.88	45.53	-22.61	47.15	54
144	142	United States	Nick Hardy	0.87	45.48	-32.40	32.96	58
145	146	Germany	Matti Schmid	0.87	45.37	-29.58	42.70	62
146	148	South Africa	Zander Lombard	0.87	45.36	-28.09	46.69	63
147	144	Philippines	Richard Hoey	0.86	34.43	-7.43	41.87	28
148	147	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.84	43.83	-37.07	39.22	55
149	153	Scotland	Richie Ramsay	0.84	40.31	-35.27	24.89	48
150	154	England	Dan Bradbury	0.84	33.59	-7.06	29.32	35
151	151	Germany	Marcel Siem	0.83	43.31	-26.40	43.77	54
152	149	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	0.83	33.30	-61.71	32.06	15
153	150	England	Callum Tarren	0.83	43.18	-32.12	25.84	57
154	157	United States	Nicholas Lindheim	0.82	32.69	-7.10	33.47	33
155	156	England	Harry Hall	0.82	42.47	-31.74	37.97	57
156	155	United States	Trey Mullinax	0.81	38.22	-47.63	19.07	47
157	152	United States	Dustin Johnson	0.81	32.53	-72.89	17.05	16
158	160	Colombia	Camilo Villegas	0.80	41.83	-9.00	40.40	54
159	158	United States	William Gordon	0.80	41.65	-34.66	20.67	58
160	163	England	Matthew Southgate	0.80	41.62	-19.73	37.01	62
160	159	Canada	Ben Silverman	0.80	32.02	-10.28	38.63	31
162	162	France	Julien Guerrier	0.79	41.29	-22.27	38.78	52
163	164	United States	Chesson Hadley	0.79	41.22	-24.58	34.33	53
164	161	England	Benjamin Taylor	0.79	41.12	-38.03	27.86	58
165	166	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	0.79	40.93	-19.34	36.85	58
166	165	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.79	39.26	-52.26	17.82	50
167	167	Scotland	Martin Laird	0.77	37.17	-29.78	27.67	48
168	170	United States	Norman Xiong	0.76	30.53	-10.31	26.63	32
169	169	United States	Maverick McNealy	0.75	30.74	-66.55	13.45	41
170	173	United States	Andy Ogletree	0.74	29.79	-7.16	31.81	18
171	172	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	0.74	29.72	-35.02	27.38	39
171	168	Belgium	Thomas Pieters	0.74	29.72	-80.83	12.47	27
173	180	England	Richard Mansell	0.74	38.34	-25.90	26.60	54
174	171	United States	Kevin Kisner	0.73	29.27	-91.80	5.31	39
175	174	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.73	37.81	-46.12	34.25	54
176	175	Sweden	Jens Dantorp	0.72	37.62	-28.71	28.93	59
177	179	United States	Jake Knapp	0.72	28.89	-10.46	27.84	33
178	176	China	Yechun Carl Yuan	0.72	36.76	-35.73	23.98	51
179	178	United States	David Lipsky	0.72	37.45	-37.28	32.57	56
180	181	Germany	Hurly Long	0.72	37.40	-36.33	26.94	55
181	183	United States	Dylan Wu	0.72	37.34	-18.79	42.41	55
182	177	England	Danny Willett	0.72	33.72	-54.15	18.35	47
183	185	Japan	Yuki Inamori	0.72	37.25	-45.64	23.25	56
184	186	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.71	33.59	-26.85	30.19	47
185	189	India	Shubhankar Sharma	0.71	36.71	-34.91	33.83	53
186	184	Spain	Adri Arnaus	0.70	34.48	-62.76	21.91	49
187	188	United States	Nate Lashley	0.70	35.88	-24.71	37.92	51
187	187	United States	Ryan Palmer	0.70	31.66	-35.01	27.23	45
189	190	Germany	Maximilian Kieffer	0.70	33.63	-29.68	25.97	48
190	182	United States	Harold Varner III	0.70	27.82	-78.86	11.38	23
191	191	United States	Max Greyserman	0.69	27.63	-6.19	30.83	31
192	192	Japan	Ryo Ishikawa	0.69	32.43	-20.02	25.44	47
193	195	Scotland	Calum Hill(Nov1994)	0.69	27.42	-21.69	31.63	30
194	201	Malaysia	Gavin Green	0.68	35.30	-23.06	24.46	58
195	194	England	Todd Clements	0.68	35.29	-18.57	26.27	53
196	198	Japan	Shugo Imahira	0.68	35.27	-43.84	23.71	53
197	199	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.67	33.72	-35.22	28.06	50
198	196	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.67	34.72	-62.39	15.96	60
199	196	United States	Doug Ghim	0.67	34.71	-29.75	31.27	52
200	193	India	Anirban Lahiri	0.67	26.68	-46.84	12.71	26

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