Kyle Stanley fires up rankings after Phoenix
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Kyle Stanley put aside his emotional collapse in San Diego by winning the Phoenix Open seven days later, shooting a final round 65 to win one ahead of Ben Crane in the desert.
It was only seven days earlier that the American had been on the losing side of a script all too familiar in a game that is never over until it is over, squandering a seven shot lead early in the final round to lose in a playoff to Brandt Snedeker at Torrey Pines having triple bogeyed the last hole.
This week, it was Spencer Levin who was unable to hold on to his lead, having started Sunday with a six stroke advantage. Birdies from Stanley countered bogeys from Levin, and before he could quite believe it, Kyle Stanley had picked up his first PGA Tour win.
The 24-year-old American sits atop the FedEx Cup Ranking and moves up 35 places, and to within touching distance of the World’s top 50, at 52nd place on the Official World Golf Ranking.
Australian Pratt was the biggest mover on the rankings scene moving a staggering 237 places up the World Ranking and into 270th place following his playoff victory at the Zaykabar Myanmar Open.
Luke Donald completes 36 consecutive weeks as World Number One, and is just two months away from South African Nick Price’s 44 weeks total at the top.
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