Jon Rahm is now the highest placed European in the world golf rankings following his battling fourth place in the Dell Technologies Championship. He is still fifth in the global rankings but takes top European honours because Rory McIlroy missed the cut in the second tournament of the PGA Tour’s FedExCup series and dropped from fourth to sixth.
Rahm, who has just been named the European Tour player of the month for July (thanks to his barnstorming Irish Open victory), and who led by two after the second round of the Dell Technologies, was on target to finish higher at the TPC Boston but struggled on the back nine.
Not so his compatriot Rafa Cabrera-Bello, who carded an equal low round of the day to move from 80th to 60th on the FedExCup points table. The leading 70 from Boston advance to the third leg of the Cup, the BMW Championship, in two weeks time, then the leading 30 will qualify for the grand finale Tour Championship the following week.
Justin Thomas won the Dell Technologies to take over top spot from Dustin Johnson (winner of the first leg, the Northern Trust), who slipped to third behind Jordan Spieth. They are followed (in order) by Hideki Matsuyama, Rahm, Rickie Fowler, Marc Leishman, Paul Casey, Brooks Koepka and Pat Perez.
Other leading names among the top-70 are Justin Rose 17th, Henrik Stenson 26th, Jason Day 28th, Sergio García 34th, Phil Mickelson 36th and Rory McIlroy 51st.
