Els third in world rankings

Open Championship winner Ernie Els lies third in the official golf world rankings.

Official World Rankings:

1 Tiger Woods (USA) 16.31pts ave,

2 Phil Mickelson (USA) 10.64,

3 Ernie Els (Rsa) 8.85,

4 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 7.23,

5 Sergio Garcia (Spa) 6.96,

6 David Toms (USA) 5.93,

7 Davis Love-III (USA) 5.58,

8 Padraig Harrington (Irl) 5.29,

9 David Duval (USA) 5.27,

10 Vijay Singh (Fij) 5.17,

11 Nick Price (Zim)5.01,

12 Jim Furyk (USA) 4.74,

13 Chris DiMarco (USA) 4.50,

14 Michael Campbell (Nzl) 4.40,

15 Bob Estes (USA)4.28,

16 Colin Montgomerie (Sco) 4.25,

17 Darren Clarke (NIrl) 4.24,

18 Angel Cabrera (Arg) 4.18,

19 Rocco Mediate (USA) 4.02,

20 Kenny Perry (USA) 4.01,

21 Scott Verplank (USA) 3.84,

22 Scott Hoch (USA) 3.75,

23 Mike Weir (Can) 3.73,

24 Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 3.73,

25 Jose M Olazabal (Spa) 3.72,

26 Justin Leonard (USA) 3.54,

27 Scott McCarron (USA)3.52,

28 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 3.43,

29 Jerry Kelly (USA) 3.37,

30 Brad Faxon (USA) 3.35,

31 Eduardo Romero (Arg) 3.31,

32 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 3.09,

33 Robert Allenby(Aus) 3.04,

34 Toshimitsu Izawa (Jpn) 2.85,

35 Thomas Bjorn (Den) 2.82,

36 Stuart Appleby (Aus) 2.79,

37 Len Mattiace (USA) 2.78,

38 Tom Lehman (USA) 2.78,

39 Mark Calcavecchia (USA) 2.76,

40 Justin Rose (Eng) 2.62,

41 Paul Azinger (USA) 2.61,

42 John Cook (USA) 2.60,

43 Kevin Sutherland (USA) 2.55,

44 Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 2.53,

45 Dudley Hart (USA) 2.50,

46 Steve Elkington (Aus) 2.42,

47 Stewart Cink (USA) 2.38,

48 Toru Taniguchi (Jpn) 2.34,

49 Peter Lonard (Aus) 2.34,

50 Jose Coceres (Arg) 2.33