Furyk and Scott climb rankings

Jim Furyk and Adam Scott have reached their highest-ever positions in the world rankings following victories this weekend.

Furyk, expected to partner Tiger Woods in next week’s Ryder Cup, has leap-frogged over Phil Mickelson into the number two spot after winning the Canadian Open, while Scott’s play-off success over Ernie Els in the Singapore Open takes him to fifth.

Woods, Furyk and Scott are all in action this week in the HSBC World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, where’s golf’s biggest first prize of £1m (€1.5m) is on offer.

The event boasts six of the world’s top 10 – Retief Goosen, six-time winner Els and Luke Donald are the others – and nine of the leading 20.

Latest leading positions:

1 Tiger Woods 22.80pts,

2 Jim Furyk 8.99,

3 Phil Mickelson 8.70,

4 Vijay Singh 7.33,

5 Adam Scott 6.82,

6 Retief Goosen 6.56,

7 Ernie Els 6.25,

8 Sergio Garcia 5.89,

9 Geoff Ogilvy 5.68,

10 Luke Donald 5.56.

11 Henrik Stenson 4.82,

12 David Howell 4.53,

13 Trevor Immelman 4.46,

14 David Toms 4.37,

15 Chris DiMarco 4.26,

16 Colin Montgomerie 4.22,

17 Padraig Harrington 4.15,

18 Jose Maria Olazabal 4.00,

19 Tim Clark 3.88,

20 Chad Campbell 3.66

Other leading Europeans:

21 Darren Clarke,

27 Paul Casey,

29 Carl Pettersson,

33 Thomas Bjorn,

44 Robert Karlsson,

47 Lee Westwood,

50 Johan Edfors,

52 Paul McGinley,

53 Ian Poulter,

54 Paul Broadhurst,

57 Miguel Angel Jimenez,

58 Niclas Fasth,

64 Bradley Dredge,

68 Stephen Dodd,

72 Anthony Wall,

73 Greg Owen,

81 Simon Dyson,

82 Simon Khan,

89 Graeme McDowell,

90 Kenneth Ferrie,

93 Anders Hansen,

94 Justin Rose,

96 Nick Dougherty,

98 John Bickerton